From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 25/30] pata_hpt3x3: clean up by using cable method
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:25:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45ED79DE.7000702@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070306151959.2c30b606@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
>> dropped patches 9-25.
>>
>> they should all be rolled up into a single "update ->cable_detect hook"
>> patch, as discussed.
>
> Strongly disagree. Each cable detect for a driver is testable alone which
> means each one is a git bisect point and you can find which driver has
> broken that way.
For most testers, you can generally find out which driver is broken
through intuition and simple observation, without having to resort to
git bisect.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-06 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-06 10:38 [patch 25/30] pata_hpt3x3: clean up by using cable method akpm
2007-03-06 11:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-06 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-06 14:25 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-03-06 16:27 ` Alan Cox
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