Kernel 'bisection'

[Colin Law]

On 14 February 2015 at 13:41, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 13:05 +0000, Peter Waller wrote:
>> Briefly, bisection is a way of taking a long list of 1000's of
>> changes, and arranging things so that you only have to test more like
>> 10 of them, because you test midpoints. (and 2^10 ~ 1000).
>>
>>
>> More detail:
>>
>>
>> http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/07/git-tip-of-week-git-bisect.html
>>
> Here's the same bug reported at freedesktop.org -
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75394 which shows it
> affects multiple 'flavors'.

Since it seems it can sometimes be weeks between flavours I don't see
how you can do a git bisection on the kernel as you might have to run
it for weeks on each version.

However can I first check that there is a known good version of the
kernel which does not show the problem?  If so can you not just stick
with that version in the hope the bug will get fixed at some point in
the future?

Colin

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