From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: bisect gives strange answer Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:27:17 -0400 Message-ID: <20050804182717.GA2241@redhat.com> References: <20050804172635.GA14144@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Greg KH , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 04 20:30:01 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0kT0-0002lZ-Lk for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:29:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261821AbVHDS2o (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:28:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261203AbVHDS2o (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:28:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39839 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261821AbVHDS1Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:27:25 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j74IRIve005439; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:27:18 -0400 Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.1]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j74IRIV32098; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:27:18 -0400 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (vpn50-5.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.5]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j74IRIHM001245; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:27:18 -0400 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74IRHeY002398; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:27:17 -0400 Received: (from davej@localhost) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j74IRHRb002397; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:27:17 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: nwo.kernelslacker.org: davej set sender to davej@redhat.com using -f To: Sanjoy Mahajan Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 06:41:41PM +0100, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > > By any chance, is this patch causing you problems? > > No, sadly. But I had hopes! As I think about it more, there's no way > it could, since I have CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y, so moving the CONFIG_HOTPLUG > would not change anything (for those who don't know the patch, it is > appended below). > > My latest theory is that I fed bisect incorrect good/bad data. > Perhaps If I had checked out and compiled those intermediate versions > from scratch, each version in a separate directory, then I would have > got different answers. Two possible reasons: Errrrm, if you don't compile/test those intermediate versions, how do you know whether to tag it good/bad ? Dave