linux-kernel - Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

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Message-ID: <20080414074329.GY9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:43:29 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, david@...g.hm,
	Stephen Clark <sclark46@...thlink.net>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jesper.juhl@...il.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:23:28AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> And the latter part _must_ be done on each entry point.  Any git tree
> that acts as injection point really needs a working mechanism of some
> sort that would do that; afterwards it's too late, since review of
> the stuff getting into mainline on a massive merge is sadly impractical.

PS: net/* is actually pretty sane in that respect - the huge volume
being what it is, of course, but still, my impression is that it's
pretty far from the worst sources of crap.  OTOH, I might be missing
secondary tree problems - e.g. net/sctp is much worse off in that
respect, AFAICT; there might very well be more of such areas.
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