Bisects that are neither good nor bad

From: Paul Dickson
Date: Sun May 28 2006 - 17:08:31 EST


On Sun, 28 May 2006 14:02:38 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:

> Building and testing a good kernel takes me about 70 minutes. If I make
> mistakes it can easily take two times (or more!) longer.
>
> I'm currently tracking my work at:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185108
>
> I'm currently building my fifth bisect.

Is there a method of bisecting that means neither "good" nor "bad"? I
have run into kernel problems that are not related to the problem I'm
attempting to track. Some are not avoidable by changing the .config (see
the third bisect in comments 10 and 11 in the bugzilla report).

-Paul

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