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Message-ID: <20071113181228.GF4250@stusta.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:12:28 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To: Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, protasnb@...il.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> for example git-bisect was godsent. I remember that years ago bisection of
>> a bug was a very laborous task so that it was only used as a final,
>> last-ditch approach for really nasty bugs. Today we can autonomouly bisect
>> build bugs via a simple shell command around "git-bisect run", without any
>> human interaction! This freed up testing resources
> ..
>
> It's only a godsend for the few people who happen to be kernel developers
It's also godsend for users who want a regression they observe fixed.
If you can tell which patch broke it you often turned a very hard to
debug problem into a relatively easy fixable problem.
As an example, [1] was an issue a normal user could discover, and
bisecting made the difference between "nearly undebuggable" and
"easily fixable by revertng a commit".
> and who happen to already use git.
As already said in thread, the required instructions for bisecting are
relatively short and simple (assuming the user can build his own
kernels).
> It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone else.
Not everyone has a slow connection.
For me, the speed of cloning a tree from git.kernel.org is completely
cpu bound and limited by the speed of the 1.8 Ghz Athlon in my
computer...
But if there is a real life problem like people with extremely slow and
expensive internet connections not being able to bisect bugs these
problems should be named and fixed (e.g. by sending CDs).
> -ml
cu
Adrian
[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/12/154
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