On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:57:23PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Changes like this (and it now leaked into Linus' tree as well) kill > > > bisectability. > > > > The odds that a "normal" person has sysfs turned off and modules > > enabled, trying to bisect things, is pretty slim :) > > that "slim" combination is what i use for about 25% of all my bisections > - i build, boot and stress-test randconfig configs. > > If i find a problem with a given .config, i do _not_ go around and > change the .config to make a bisection point work. (and the automated > bisection scripts definitely wont do it either.) > > so what is a 'weird config' to you is a real testing barrier for others. > And crap like that quickly mounts up. Having a buildable and bootable > kernel at every bisection point is a _must_. > > Please! :-)
Yes, I do agree that this is important, I'll work to not let this happen again. Especially now that I have your build scripts, I'm working on setting up something like that myself here. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/
