Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751360Ab1EMSeN (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2011 14:34:13 -0400 Received: from bsmtp4.bon.at ([195.3.86.186]:38244 "EHLO bsmtp.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750746Ab1EMSeL (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2011 14:34:11 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 85155 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 13 May 2011 14:34:11 EDT Message-ID: <4DCD79A0.7000500@kdbg.org> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:34:08 +0200 From: Johannes Sixt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 SUSE/3.1.10 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Lutomirski , Christian Couder , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org, Shuang He Subject: Re: AAARGH bisection is hard (Re: [2.6.39 regression] X locks up hard right after logging in) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 23 Am 13.05.2011 19:54, schrieb Linus Torvalds: > For example, in your case, since you had certain requirements of > support that simply didn't exist earlier, something like > > git bisect requires v2.6.38 > > would have been really useful - telling git bisect that any commit > that cannot reach that required commit is not even worth testing. You can already have this with git bisect good v2.6.38 It sounds a bit unintuitive, but with a slight mind-twist it can even be regarded as correct in a mathematical sense: when the precondition is false, the result is true. ;-) -- Hannes -- 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/