Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758528AbXKQMUi (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:20:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750792AbXKQMUa (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:20:30 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:41419 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbXKQMUa (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:20:30 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:20:10 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Theodore Tso , Daniel Barkalow , Romano Giannetti , Benoit Boissinot , Mark Lord , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , David Miller , protasnb@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs Message-ID: <20071117122010.GC4250@stusta.de> References: <20071113134029.GA30978@elte.hu> <4739AFE0.20705@rtr.ca> <40f323d00711130752k19cab8eauc3456721274b3267@mail.gmail.com> <20071113171356.GA25824@thunk.org> <20071115153057.GE17180@thunk.org> <1195201202.13688.10.camel@localhost> <20071116194617.GI11339@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071116194617.GI11339@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1136 Lines: 32 On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:46:18PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:20:16PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > Compared to getting useful suggestions from a mailing list, especially > > before you've gotten anybody's attention? Hours or overnight isn't > > particularly long, and doesn't take up much of your time if you've got a > > working kernel to use while it's working. > > But a bisect takes around 7 compiles. >... I don't understand that number. The common case are regressions in -rc1, and a bisection of at about 7000 commits takes around 13 compiles. > - Ted cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/