On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:46:18PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:20:16PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > Compared to getting useful suggestions from a mailing list, especially > > before you've gotten anybody's attention? Hours or overnight isn't > > particularly long, and doesn't take up much of your time if you've got a > > working kernel to use while it's working. > > But a bisect takes around 7 compiles. >...
I don't understand that number. The common case are regressions in -rc1, and a bisection of at about 7000 commits takes around 13 compiles. > - Ted cu Adrian -- "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/