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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: merging other repos into linux-2.6
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:19:13 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810301618160.21084@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225403551.3322.42.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>



On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>
> Is bisection really important for a new driver?

It's not the new driver that matters.

It's bisecting all the other _unrelated_ bugs, and then ending up in the 
middle of the driver history.

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30  5:49 Greg KH
2008-10-30 17:17 ` Stefan Richter
2008-10-30 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-30 21:52   ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-10-30 23:19     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-10-30 21:57   ` Greg KH
2008-10-30 23:28     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-31  3:13       ` Greg KH
2008-10-31  1:34 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-10-31  1:47   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-31  2:38     ` J.R. Mauro
2008-10-31  3:31       ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-31  4:08       ` Kyle Moffett
2008-10-31 12:57         ` J.R. Mauro
2008-10-31 14:22           ` Kyle Moffett

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