On Jan 09, 2006, at 21:50, Linus Torvalds wrote:
if we have three independent features/development trees, they can
be debugged independently too, while any linkages inevitably also
mean that any bugs end up being interlinked..
One example:
If I have ACPI, netdev, and swsusp trees change between an older
version and a newer one, and my net driver starts breaking during
suspend, I would be happiest debugging with the following set of
patches/trees (Heavily simplified):
^
|
[5]
|
broken
^ ^ ^
[2] [3] [4]
/ | \
netdev3 acpi3 swsusp3
^ ^ ^
| | |
netdev2 acpi2 swsusp2
^ ^ ^
| | |
netdev1 acpi1 swsusp1
^ ^ ^
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
\|/
|
[1]
|
works
If the old version [1] works and the new one [5] doesn't, then I can
immediately test [2], [3], and [4]. If one of those doesn't work,
I've identified the problematic patchset and cut the debugging by
2/3. If they all work, then we know precisely that it's the
interactions between them, which also makes debugging a lot easier.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
--
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the
other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
-- C.A.R. Hoare
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