Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:46:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
cc: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
        Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: disable LVDS downclock by default
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On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Nick Bowler wrote:
> 
> You could apply Jesse's patch at each step during the bisection whenever
> the LVDS downclocking commit is present.

There's even a use "git bisect run" to automate it, see "man git-bisect".

Although in all fairness, for a one-off bisect like this, it's usually 
more pain to write the automation script than to just do it manually the 
handful of times you need to. You need to return a special value to say "I 
need to test this specially" - since "git bisect run" is designed to also 
return the 'is it good or bad' test value.

			Linus
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