On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:31:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Now, can someone suggest a patch I can revert that might fix this? The > total number of patches between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1 will have me > building kernels to bisect this till the middle of June at this rate.
4 billion patches could be bisected in 34 boots. Between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1 there are only: $ git rev-list --no-merges v2.6.20..v2.6.21-rc1 |wc -l 3118 patches, requiring 14 boots. In general ceil(log(n)/log(2))+2 boots. Of course, this is a little optimistic because it assumes no additional breakage occurring at the various bisection points. In any event, assuming (pessimistically) 10 minutes per build, this is 280 minutes or 4 hours and 40 minutes of build time. I estimate the process should complete well before Friday of this week, never mind June. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/