linux-kernel - Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues"

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Date:   Tue, 4 Oct 2022 11:20:32 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Slade Watkins <srw@...dewatkins.net>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Artem S. Tashkinov" <aros@....com>, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "regressions@...ts.linux.dev" <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        ksummit@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues"

Hi Thorsten,

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 10:41 AM Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info> wrote:
> But I consider explaining things like bisection and localmodconfig in
> the documentation as also important, as that's likely something the tool
> won't be able to automate any time soon (or never, as realizing that is
> likely hard and better left to a separate tool anyway).

Creating a simple Linux-specific wrapper around git bisect under
scripts/ might be useful?
The wrapper could copy .config to
$(srctree)/arch/$(ARCH)/config/bisect_defconfig, automatically run
"make bisect_defconfig" in each step, and show not only the bisected
commit, but also the impact on .config.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

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