Re: [PATCH 183/196] driver core: fix build with SYSFS=n

Ingo Molnar
2008-01-25T22:57:49Z

* Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> > Changes like this (and it now leaked into Linus' tree as well) kill
> > bisectability.
>
> The odds that a "normal" person has sysfs turned off and modules
> enabled, trying to bisect things, is pretty slim :)

that "slim" combination is what i use for about 25% of all my bisections
- i build, boot and stress-test randconfig configs.

If i find a problem with a given .config, i do _not_ go around and
change the .config to make a bisection point work. (and the automated
bisection scripts definitely wont do it either.)

so what is a 'weird config' to you is a real testing barrier for others.
And crap like that quickly mounts up. Having a buildable and bootable
kernel at every bisection point is a _must_.

Please! :-)

Ingo