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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 4 Oct 2022 11:20:32 +0200
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Subject: Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues"
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
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        Slade Watkins <srw@sladewatkins.net>,
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Hi Thorsten,

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 10:41 AM Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.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@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds