From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Subject: Re: Badness on the Warp
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:03:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3DDB27.2000500@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906202256.46073.elendil@planet.nl>
Frans Pop wrote:
>
> The fact that your bisect ended at a merge essentially means that it is
> invalid. As a merge does not introduce any actual change (unless it
> includes changes to resolve conflicts), it normally cannot be the cause
> of a regression.
>
Sort of. You can have a "bum merge" where code conflicts logically,
even if it isn't visible as a conflict in git. Furthermore, of course,
you can have misresolved actual conflicts.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-21 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-20 19:48 Badness on the Warp Sean MacLennan
2009-06-20 20:56 ` Frans Pop
2009-06-20 23:10 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-06-20 23:26 ` Frans Pop
2009-06-21 4:08 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-06-20 23:42 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-06-21 4:28 ` Frans Pop
2009-06-21 10:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-21 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-21 22:36 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-06-21 22:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-22 4:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-23 5:24 ` Sean MacLennan
2009-06-21 7:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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