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From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:05:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: [syzbot] WARNING in do_mkdirat
To:     Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        syzbot <syzbot+919c5a9be8433b8bf201@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 5:12 AM Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> wrote:
>
> On 13 Dec 2022 03:36:23 +0000 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 09:47:16AM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> >
> > > > maintainer time is expensive.  So by not improving syzbot in a way
> > > > that really shouldn't be all that difficult, the syzbot maintainers=
 is
> > > > disrespectiving the time of the upstream maintainers.
> > >
> > > Are upstream maintainers prefering to spend weeks and months creating
> > > ext4 beatles for example over taking a couple of hours scanning the
> > > syzbot reports like this one? Why does the bot kick you if you have a
> > > clean butt? Why are usb people irrelevant in this case?
> >
> > And to continue with the rethorical questions: has anyone bothered to
> > inform you that you are an obnoxious cunt?
>
> When did cunt go in to your mind? And How?
> >
> > *plonk*


I think it's time to take a step back now and try to keep the
discussion constructive.
It's really about bots and automation, no need to engage in personalities.

I myself am not involved in improving syzbot, but as a bystander let
me assure you that the folks do take the feedback seriously and
actually have interest in improving the experience for the upstream
maintainers.


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