On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:35:03PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 01/11/2016 07:08 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > >On 2016-01-11 06:11 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >>On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 02:05:36PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > >>>On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 10:29:08AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >>>>On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 10:15:35AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: <snip> > >>> > >>>Hi Guenter, > >>>Just a thought. It has happended many times that we both have sent > >>>patches to fix the same build fail. Maybe your patch got applied and > >>>mine came late or maybe mine was applied and you came late. But I think > >>>if we have a separate mailing list where people interested to fix and > >>>monitor build failures will be members and we Cc that list whenever we > >>>send patch for build fail and then in that case we will know that > >>>someone else has already sent a patch for this failure and we can invest > >>>the time in some other problem. > >>> > >> > >>Hi Sudip, > >> > >>I agree, it would make sense to have a build(/runtime?)-fixes-only mailing > >>list. Question though is how to limit noise on such a list and, of course, > >>where and how to set it up. Any thoughts ? > > > >Since most (all?) of these kind of fails are on linux-next, why not > > Most or many, but not all. > > >do what everyone else does, and report the fail there and/or ensure > >the fix is cc'd there? Before I waste time trying to fix sth on > >linux-next, I always google for the error msg and many times that > >leads me to a lkml or linux-next post where it was reported and > >fixed already. > > Many times, Sudip and I end up fixing problems literally in parallel, > and it happened quite often lately that we do send patches in parallel. sometimes it was a difference of few minutes. > Even if I do a Google search for an error message, it happens quite > often that I get no results, yet the fix is already out there on > some list. google will take some time to index it. > > Sudip, one option would be to set up a semi-private mailing list. > My build tests now have a dedicated virtual host (kerneltests.org). > I could set up a managed list there. yes, fine with me. As long as we can share the information that one of us has already sent the fix. regards sudip -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
