Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753847AbYAZDUT (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:20:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751431AbYAZDUH (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:20:07 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:43357 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751392AbYAZDUG (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:20:06 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Stefan Richter Cc: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:50:44 +0100." <479A75D4.6070607@s5r6.in-berlin.de> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <4799A773.2030702@cateee.net> <22000.1201255093@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200801251258.08707.rjw@sisk.pl> <4799D770.2070203@cateee.net> <479A75D4.6070607@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1201317556_2846P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:19:16 -0500 Message-ID: <7766.1201317556@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1344 Lines: 34 --==_Exmh_1201317556_2846P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:50:44 +0100, Stefan Richter said: > How often is "bisectability" being broken already before merge in > subsystem trees, and how often only in the context of the merge result? I don't bisect git trees often - but I'd say that at least half the time I have to bisect -mm, I'll hit a busticated bisection point and need to move several one way or another. Fortunately, Andrew does a good job of keeping fixes near their parents, so it's usually not *that* hard to clean up (at least for me - but I recently realized that I had passed the 3-decade mark of breaking and fixing software). Newcomer kernel testers are likely in for a rude awakening if they hit one of those points. --==_Exmh_1201317556_2846P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHmqa0cC3lWbTT17ARAl0SAKCIwhQSmrj4a+4umT88W2tlCE+wEgCggpmT P5FVqk2jBRTLC/jcVWoozYc= =QEBU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1201317556_2846P-- -- 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/