Re: [PATCH -mm v2] Bisecting through -mm with quilt

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 07:20:25PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 05:42:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > hm, I wouldn't use it.  The problem is that a _lot_ of patches in -mm don't
> > fscking compile.
> > 
> > 	bix:/usr/src/25> grep '[-]fix.patch' series | wc
> > 	     72      72    2905
> > 
> > If your bisection happens to land you between foo.patch and foo-fix.patch,
> > you have a *known bad* kernel.   What's the point in testing it?

If "./bisect-mm apply" landed you to obviously wrong kernel, with v2 you
can do a couple of "quilt {push,pop}" by hand. "./bisect {bad,good}"
marks _current_ patch as reported by "quilt top".

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