From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
Cc: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel git bisect question
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:54:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110310215438.GE12521@home.goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D793414.4090206@compro.net>
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:27:00PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Between git bisect [good | bad ]s should I always "make clean" or can I
> count on the build system to take care of everything properly?
I don't usually do a make clean. Although my ktest.pl (see tools/testing/ktest)
does do a make mrproper between builds (unless you specify not to).
There are some cases in the kernel that can cause bugs if you do not do
a make clean, so if your bisect hits one of those rare cases, you may
introduce a bug in the build. But that is extremely rare. Like I said, when I use to
do manual git bisects, I never did a make clean. But now that I do
automate bisects, and do not need to babysit the box, I let ktest do
those cleans.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-10 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-10 20:27 Mark Hounschell
2011-03-10 21:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-03-10 21:17 ` Mark Hounschell
2011-03-10 21:54 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2011-03-11 18:31 ` Mark Hounschell
2011-03-11 18:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-03-11 18:41 ` Mark Hounschell
2011-03-11 18:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-11 18:56 ` Mark Hounschell
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