linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] docs: bug-bisect: add a note about bisecting -next

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Message-ID: <ZytHwhJOjeg3r-Pq@archie.me>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:41:06 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] docs: bug-bisect: add a note about bisecting -next

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 11:35:10AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 06.11.24 11:15, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 06:26:49AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >> On 06.11.24 02:04, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 01:11:08PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >
> >> Documentation/admin-guide/verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions.rst handles
> >> such things, as it has a different target audience. Should it cover
> >> -next as well? Not sure. I for now decided to focus on this addition.
> > 
> > I think for those who want to test linux-next, they can simply follow [1].
> > Maybe we can add a pointer to it.
> > [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
> 
> Don't think that's worth it either for this document, as those that want
> to bisect -next most of the time will already have retrieved next via
> git. And again: providing such a pointer for -next, but not explaining
> how to retrieve mainline (which is left to the other document linked
> prominently at the top) IMHO makes no sense either.

OK, thanks!

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