Hi Guenter,

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:20:19 -0700 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 04:45:19PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > The best we can do is make the automated testing of linux-next better
> > such that there's less -rc5 patches that need to go in in the first
> > place.
> >   
> 
> Would that help ? -next has been more or less unusable for a week or so.
> Maybe it is just a bad time (it hasn't been as bad as it is right now
> for quite some time), but
> 
> Build results:
> 	total: 135 pass: 133 fail: 2
> Qemu test results:
> 	total: 315 pass: 112 fail: 203

I assume that most of that is the mount api changes.  I also assume you
have reported these?

> on next-20180910 doesn't really make me very confident that useful regression
> tests on -next are even possible. it seems to me that -next is quite often
> used as dumping ground for sparsely tested changes, and is far from "ready
> for upstream".

Well, we do get some of that, but also some things are harder to test
in isolation.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell