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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 10:29:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches
To:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
        "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "w@1wt.eu" <w@1wt.eu>
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Hi Boris,

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2018 10:00:30 +0200
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:00 PM, Sasha Levin
>> <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com> 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

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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