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

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Message-ID: <20071117122010.GC4250@stusta.de>
Date:	Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:20:10 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@...ervon.org>,
	Romano Giannetti <romanol@...omillas.es>,
	Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@...il.com>, Mark Lord <liml@....ca>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, protasnb@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:46:18PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:20:16PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > Compared to getting useful suggestions from a mailing list, especially 
> > before you've gotten anybody's attention? Hours or overnight isn't 
> > particularly long, and doesn't take up much of your time if you've got a 
> > working kernel to use while it's working.
> 
> But a bisect takes around 7 compiles.
>...

I don't understand that number.

The common case are regressions in -rc1, and a bisection of
at about 7000 commits takes around 13 compiles.

>    	      	   	       		       	  - Ted

cu
Adrian

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