Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-13T18:18:20Z

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.