On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> for example git-bisect was godsent. I remember that years ago bisection of
>> a bug was a very laborous task so that it was only used as a final,
>> last-ditch approach for really nasty bugs. Today we can autonomouly bisect
>> build bugs via a simple shell command around "git-bisect run", without any
>> human interaction! This freed up testing resources
> ..
>
> It's only a godsend for the few people who happen to be kernel developers
It's also godsend for users who want a regression they observe fixed.
If you can tell which patch broke it you often turned a very hard to
debug problem into a relatively easy fixable problem.
As an example, [1] was an issue a normal user could discover, and
bisecting made the difference between "nearly undebuggable" and
"easily fixable by revertng a commit".
> and who happen to already use git.
As already said in thread, the required instructions for bisecting are
relatively short and simple (assuming the user can build his own
kernels).
> It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone else.
Not everyone has a slow connection.
For me, the speed of cloning a tree from git.kernel.org is completely
cpu bound and limited by the speed of the 1.8 Ghz Athlon in my
computer...
But if there is a real life problem like people with extremely slow and
expensive internet connections not being able to bisect bugs these
problems should be named and fixed (e.g. by sending CDs).
> -ml
cu
Adrian
[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/12/154
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
-
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/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
