linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

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Message-ID: <4739EA83.5040006@rtr.ca>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:18:43 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
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

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.
..

Oh yes, definitely.  When that use happens to be a kernel dev + git user,
it saves the *fool who broke it* a hell of a lot of time, because they can
slough it off onto the poor bloke who notices it.

Mind you, no arguing that this is effective when that poor bloke
has a day free to download the git-tree and build/reboot a dozen times.
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