Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.32-rc1-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.31 | Date | Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:32:27 +0200 |
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On Friday 02 October 2009, Stefan Richter wrote: > Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > If you add one more entry say "Suspected commit :" then it will be great > > and will solve regressions much faster. > > Will? Might.
In fact I add the "First-Bad-Commit" annotation where there is a bisection result or it's possible to fix things by reverting a specific commit.
> > You can request submitter to > > submit 'suspected commit' by git bisect and also specify git bisect > > links like : (for more information about git bisect check > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/11753) > > I disagree. A reporter should only be asked to bisect (using git or > other tools) /if/ a developer determined that bisection may speed up the > debugging process or is the only remaining option to make progress with > a bug. > > It would be wrong to steal a reporter's valuable time by asking for > bisection before anybody familiar with the matter even had a first look > at the report.
Agreed.
Thanks, Rafael
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