Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:42:50 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] Bisecting through -mm with quilt |
| |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote: > > Quick, Dirty, Fragile, Should Work (TM).
hm, I wouldn't use it. The problem is that a _lot_ of patches in -mm don't fscking compile.
bix:/usr/src/25> grep '[-]fix.patch' series | wc 72 72 2905
If your bisection happens to land you between foo.patch and foo-fix.patch, you have a *known bad* kernel. What's the point in testing it?
So I'd recommend the smarter approach: copy the series file to ~/hunt, edit ~/hunt and do the bisection by hand, marking the good and bad points in ~/hunt as you go.
- 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/
| |