From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 18:27:17 GMT
Subject: Re: bisect gives strange answer
Message-ID: <20050804182717.GA2241@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1E0jiv-0003c4-00@skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk>

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