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Message-Id: <1194977843.6098.18.camel@lappy>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:17:23 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
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, 2007-11-13 at 12:50 -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
> and who happen to already use git.
>
> It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone else.
Oh, common. Leeching CDs is so yesterday. These days some distributions
don't even offer CDs anymore in favour of DVDs.
I'd be amazed if a lot of the testers would still be on slownet, its
impossible to keep up with the latest distros without broadband.
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