Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

[Chris Rorvick]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Put another way: "bad" is generally more trustworthy (because you
> actively saw the bug),

Makes sense, but ...

> while a "good" _before_ a subsequent bad is
> also trustworthy (because if the "good" kernel contained the bug and
> you should have marked it bad, we'd then go on to test all the commits
> that were *not* the bug, so we'd never see a "bad" kernel again).

wouldn't marking a bad commit "good" cause you to not see a *good*
kernel again?  Marking it "good" would seem push the search away from
the bug toward the current "bad" commit.
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