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    SubjectRe: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs
    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

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