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On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:43:39AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 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?
> 
I think so. I just noticed that the failure pattern changed yesterday,
and did not have time to run bisect. So, no, I have not reported this
specific failure.

> > 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