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Re: bisect gives strange answer

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DJDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date
Aug 4, 2005, 18:27 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 06:41:41PM +0100, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
 > > By any chance, is this patch causing you problems?
 > 
 > No, sadly.  But I had hopes!  As I think about it more, there's no way
 > it could, since I have CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y, so moving the CONFIG_HOTPLUG
 > would not change anything (for those who don't know the patch, it is
 > appended below).  
 > 
 > My latest theory is that I fed bisect incorrect good/bad data.
 > Perhaps If I had checked out and compiled those intermediate versions
 > from scratch, each version in a separate directory, then I would have
 > got different answers.  Two possible reasons:

Errrrm, if you don't compile/test those intermediate versions, how do you know whether to tag it good/bad ?

		Dave
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Message 6 of 11 in “bisect gives strange answer”
  1. Sanjoy MahajanAug 4, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2005
  3. Sanjoy MahajanAug 4, 2005
  4. Greg KHAug 4, 2005
  5. Sanjoy MahajanAug 4, 2005
  6. Dave JonesAug 4, 2005
  7. Sanjoy MahajanAug 4, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2005
  9. Sam RavnborgAug 4, 2005
  10. Sanjoy MahajanAug 5, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2005

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