Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests

Mark Brown
2024-10-22T13:19:12Z

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On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> I wonder if part of this is a "don't know how to do that" aka "lack of
> documentation" problem. I've recently seen some good guide or mailing
> list post how to bisect -next somewhere, but I think it wasn't in our
> Documentation/ directory. I need to search where that was (Mark, I might
> misremember, but wasn't it you who posted it somewhere?) and could work
> towards upstreaming that or some other guide. And don't worry, due to
> the different target audience it would be much shorter text than other
> documents I contributed. ;-)

I don't recall anything specific, though it's plausible I said something
in a thread that was basically just the bit about bisecting between
mainline<->pending-fixes<->-next rather than between -next versions.
You're right that we should have that in the documentation somewhere,
I'll look at sending a patch.

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