From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF7401832 for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 08:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vk0-f66.google.com (mail-vk0-f66.google.com [209.85.213.66]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D850189 for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 08:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vk0-f66.google.com with SMTP id g83-v6so6924365vkc.6 for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 01:29:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20180514101237.5df1e0d7@bbrezillon> References: <20180502194632.GB18390@sasha-vm> <20180503020550.GP2714@sirena.org.uk> <20180503031000.GC29205@thunk.org> <0276fcda-0385-8f22-dbdb-e063f7ed8bbe@roeck-us.net> <20180503224217.GR2714@sirena.org.uk> <20180503230905.GA98604@atomide.com> <20180509084440.GW13402@sirena.org.uk> <20180510164722.GH8514@sasha-vm> <20180514101237.5df1e0d7@bbrezillon> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 10:29:04 +0200 Message-ID: To: Boris Brezillon Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Greg KH , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , "w@1wt.eu" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Boris, On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Boris Brezillon wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2018 10:00:30 +0200 > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:00 PM, Sasha Levin >> wrote: >> > On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 03:44:50PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: >> >>On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 04:38:21PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote: >> > What's worse is that that commit is tagged for stable, which means >> > that (given Greg's schedule) it may find it's way to -stable users >> > even before some -next users/bots had a chance to test it out. >> >> I just noticed a case where a commit was picked up for stable, while a >> bot had flagged it as a build regression 18 hours earlier (with a CC to >> lkml). > > Also, this patch has been on a tree that I know is tested by Fengguang's > robots for more than a week (and in linux-next for 2 days, which, I > agree, is probably not enough), and still, I only received the bug > report when the patch reached mainline. Are there tests that are only > run on Linus' tree? Have your received a success report from Fengguang's bot, listing all configs tested (the broken one should be included; it is included in the configs tested on my branches)? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds