[Devel] Re: [PATCH 01/29] task containersv11 basic task container framework

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:15:36 -0700 Paul Jackson <pj at sgi.com> wrote:

> Andrew wrote:
> > And I think that's OK, because we don't care about git bisectability with
> > CONFIG_CGROUPS=y (I think?) Anyone who is bisecting through the middle of
> > the containers patch series is not searching for a containers problem, so
> > they can just configure it all off.
> 
> Ok - I guess.
> 
> In *-mm, this seems fine.  I'd have figured that in Linus's tree, a wider
> variety of people will be bisecting, some of them with CONFIG_CGROUPS=y
> who don't even know what a CGROUP is, and so we'd want bisect to work
> for them.

Well obviously the situation is less than ideal, but it's livable with.

If one of their bisection points precedes the crgroups patch series,
their `make oldconfig' will knock out cgroups for them anyway, so when
their bisection cursor moves within or after the cgroups patches, they'll
still have CONFIG_CGROUPS=n.  Serendipity.
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