From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (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 E1C487482; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729662606; cv=none; b=FfSr0Ekg51/fttYMg9DdVHvOVIKfJagUQMeByQiqpBuCjoMN2MRxPVgd/1XbZRxWy+bKxFsTjHkS1dVGJTnpGt8++bFXB3eIMTkrzlJdA7QoGfZXcIDoaHeCxwzhnCp8+uMnUt6pnlg4ATvsjGLDukEplM0PchcPSB/5oFqLmf4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729662606; c=relaxed/simple; bh=d/n2Vt+6hn2xix8vmY7xEn3YMJBlN8+MoI2zLkc2M9U=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=qQMK6DIkdoEwErWysiemvPDPZ2G2m53quQ5oAP6/IJZMeJqkqiMWtr9v17KpwRW2LhLPurBNMlY+WpcIVsjlfvGtOnT0ZkbrB95Nh8WfRhsEO3yMPGBUcrojYeqcvqRu/G4YSwEuI4QYw8hfEzyuoPskpjDSVQ3TWzqALTGBMFk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=Nzs/xrcu; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="Nzs/xrcu" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=T2PL3JN2OrnUN8GJGZRZUS5IzLSw/mh0EOvKuZwt5wQ=; b=Nzs/xrcuQU59EJfLJxyWzBdAeN pxX7DpRx1YLpXqn5Kz2mTGkq4S0Y0Xr3ETfcY06RV2r35hXipvEKlgSkE8Iy3rSHIrZ4/x+2VwXj9 oAFEI5ghxjGd7r+GPnhti/4+m5AjvF0SaGAgoKfgy9LECP3KJwP8MssIpEcfcI+lmzyanf5eZ1vNd SR/2Td6jus6Gv57guKDulmtUh9rUYMjfcOs3H/TohOTcEzu+pPcsUnUxd/OHGXaiLZSXg7O11d79b SbOY+msR7o/odfsnBla/PnSkCDeQOckXDHvaaBFBxr+lsKllHSOvyOy0eOBeF0IgszLX2YIgBTwob LfJzfMeA==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1t3UFw-0000000D6VQ-2H6c; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:50:04 +0000 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:50:04 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Sasha Levin Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Kees Cook , 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 Message-ID: References: <792F4759-EA33-48B8-9AD0-FA14FA69E86E@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 05:37:38AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > We could add a report for the above, but: > > 1. Linus consistently pulls patches that haven't seen the light of day. > 2. Linus explicitly objected to making a linux-next a must have. > > So unless these results would be actually used, what's the point in > writing all of that? Yes, without Linus caring we're not going to get our process worked out. Not sure how a tree that probably won't have much better latency than linux-next is going to fix that, though.