From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750930AbWE1VI7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 May 2006 17:08:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750939AbWE1VI7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 May 2006 17:08:59 -0400 Received: from rune.pobox.com ([208.210.124.79]:37264 "EHLO rune.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750930AbWE1VI7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 May 2006 17:08:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 14:08:54 -0700 From: Paul Dickson To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Bisects that are neither good nor bad Message-Id: <20060528140854.34ddec2a.paul@permanentmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060528140238.2c25a805.dickson@permanentmail.com> References: <20060528140238.2c25a805.dickson@permanentmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.9.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 28 May 2006 14:02:38 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote: > Building and testing a good kernel takes me about 70 minutes. If I make > mistakes it can easily take two times (or more!) longer. > > I'm currently tracking my work at: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185108 > > I'm currently building my fifth bisect. Is there a method of bisecting that means neither "good" nor "bad"? I have run into kernel problems that are not related to the problem I'm attempting to track. Some are not avoidable by changing the .config (see the third bisect in comments 10 and 11 in the bugzilla report). -Paul