From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:17:23 +0100 Message-ID: <1194977843.6098.18.camel@lappy> References: <20071113031553.3c7b5c16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.033946.114918709.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113034916.2556edd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.035824.40509981.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113041259.79c9a8c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113134029.GA30978@elte.hu> <4739AFE0.20705@rtr.ca> <20071113164650.GA28493@elte.hu> <4739E3D0.10201@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4739E3D0.10201@rtr.ca> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , David Miller , protasnb@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:50 -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 > and who happen to already use git. > > It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone else. Oh, common. Leeching CDs is so yesterday. These days some distributions don't even offer CDs anymore in favour of DVDs. I'd be amazed if a lot of the testers would still be on slownet, its impossible to keep up with the latest distros without broadband.