From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.ozlabs.org (gandalf.ozlabs.org [150.107.74.76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 883051EB3D for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=150.107.74.76 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729742362; cv=none; b=u/+4FkM6tgEdUpem4v2AbULkLvPHdRBhnAPh8ZwNLs6kvYUNzvEV8AiAlpVu4tqBojN/zXe4RfdbzKEHGHZEDPokBGoo2ssur8MykDHuub1RUg3ottulrPWiOYFPTiYBeq/zrZYuKo2V4Bzam2AE+a8oBuz1Tq8X4td5XepSsRQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729742362; c=relaxed/simple; bh=DK9kvLofXnQggoD4zXHgb6qSNT8DNnvHfWY9tb/klE0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=SaQ5yLHU8FFULYSDvAD9exU4kKcfgbVsCE3MwVMPyFAoVkHifjKtX03mYgKmPjN1tdljzQrgKOTZ2Cg5McgjTASwUpRpLCLfGi9xdPhG6ze8wlRpXg8JQsXBIWL8k+LzYbKgLSZ799Zy9BxGxGGjbnmv3sYUzTb6MshyO+CBamM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ellerman.id.au; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=ellerman.id.au; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=ellerman.id.au header.i=@ellerman.id.au header.b=jlymsq68; arc=none smtp.client-ip=150.107.74.76 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ellerman.id.au Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=ellerman.id.au Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=ellerman.id.au header.i=@ellerman.id.au header.b="jlymsq68" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ellerman.id.au; s=201909; t=1729742357; bh=/jN9f0RDBaZbD5WgikoRAFa/OR5++AgfVdHLbNCGRnw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=jlymsq68uuihBBn6NHG5RbifQBF5h16Q7Lu6y/VjdtNmIDrZljWgX4NdTWi1xXu5R LBvuPNlstCN6AWl3lM1kfvKPDgt88rkznmwAkkkR6JXdsKo3SIN7oEjsNK2gGo5TWJ iwr7ZS2Txe+ERnxiPFTfxu9dC39Xc1iDAAvUsV97tgXf5AKA1/gEeyAyMJgHRHTzBP x6ytQrB1+95L1QrQb7v+6UxBOWW4fBIa3VijXwQcfnO5s9Mfw7QkR7GpqewHh3zlXF sgSm3kh49VDoUZS1rqZdRBOYL62DEdDLi6Q43mmvpYvS/XMAOFT88dbhHofxVhYOhN OHFn0siSSkidg== Received: from authenticated.ozlabs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mail.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4XYsc419l4z4w2L; Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:59:15 +1100 (AEDT) From: Michael Ellerman To: Steven Rostedt , Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Kees Cook , Sasha Levin , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ksummit@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests In-Reply-To: <20241023051914.7f8cf758@rorschach.local.home> References: <792F4759-EA33-48B8-9AD0-FA14FA69E86E@kernel.org> <20241022041243.7f2e53ad@rorschach.local.home> <20241023042004.405056f5@rorschach.local.home> <20241023051914.7f8cf758@rorschach.local.home> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:59:16 +1100 Message-ID: <8734km2lt7.fsf@mail.lhotse> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Steven Rostedt writes: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:36:20 +0200 > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> > To put it this way. The bugs I'm fixing was for code in linux-next >> > where the bugs were never found. They only appeared when they went into >> > Linus's tree. So why put the fixes in linux-next, if it didn't catch >> > the bugs I fixed in the first place? >> >> Hmmm... >> >> Your arguments sound very similar to those being used in recent >> discussions about not posting patches for public review... >> >> Please follow the process! ;-) > > What process? > ... > > But pushing to linux-next for a day or two, what does that give me? Several thousand build tests, across pretty much every architecture. And a few hundred boot tests, lots virtualised, but some on real HW. A single character typo in an #ifdef your testing doesn't cover can break the build for lots of people ... cheers