From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:16:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20080414101608.GA18662@one.firstfloor.org> References: <47FEADCB.7070104@rtr.ca> <22880.1207943922@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <47FFE5DA.8000709@imap.cc> <200804132040.12138.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080413184730.GD8474@1wt.eu> <874pa4wyfj.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20080414100018.GA10378@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Tilman Schmidt , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Mark Lord , David Miller , jesper.juhl@gmail.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton To: Willy Tarreau Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:56353 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751423AbYDNKLO (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:11:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080414100018.GA10378@1wt.eu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > And most of all, the reporter would not feel like the bisection is > the default response ! Well it is proportional to the quality of the bug report. If it very vague enough often there is no other good answer. If it comes with already some debugging or good logs or a good test case etc. I agree just saying "please bisect" is not very nice (but sometimes it might be still needed if code review doesn't find anything) Perhaps there should be a document somewhere explaining this which can be easily pointed to. -Andi