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On 05/03/2015 02:49 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>
>> Bisect points to 'powerpc, jump_label: Include linux/jump_label.h to get
>> HAVE_JUMP_LABEL define'.
>
> Btw, since you do these bisections (great!), it would be doubly useful
> if you then (automatically?) would add the people involved with the
> particular commit to the cc. At least the ones that signed off and/or
> acked the commit (that jump-label commit has a lot of people on the
> cc, but if they never _responded_ to the cc, I'm not sure that they
> should necessarily be disturbed).
>
> The people who signed off on it hopefully are aware of any
> dependencies for that commit, in ways that Greg himself (or the stable
> team) may not be.
>

Yes, I know. Quite often I do that. I didn't do it today because of time
constraints and, in the hurry I was in, I simply forgot.

Doing the bisects automatically would be great. Unfortunately that part
(and sending the e-mail) is all manual, and I don't think I'll find the
time anytime soon to automate it.

Guenter