linux-kernel - Re: merging other repos into linux-2.6

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810301618160.21084@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:19:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: merging other repos into linux-2.6



On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>
> Is bisection really important for a new driver?

It's not the new driver that matters.

It's bisecting all the other _unrelated_ bugs, and then ending up in the 
middle of the driver history.

			Linus
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