Re: [kbuild-all] [tip: x86/vmware] input/vmmouse: Update the backdoor call with support for new instructions

From: Philip Li
Date: Fri Aug 30 2019 - 02:16:39 EST


On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 08:06:27AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Philip,
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, Philip Li wrote:
>
> > > wanna test trees, I'd suggest simply testing TIP's tip/master branch
> > > which gets redone on a daily basis instead of testing patches in the
> > > tip-bot{,2} notification mails.
> >
> > Thanks Boris for the input. Besides the repo monitoring, we also check the patches
> > in mailing lists, and try to apply patch to a suitable base. Do you think we can
> > skip the mailing list of tip-bot{,2}?
>
> As I just explained in a reply to another random build failure caused by this.
>
> tip-bot2 is a notification mechanism to let people know that a particular
> patch has been merged into one of the tip tree branches. These mails are
> also properly threaded most of the time and reply to the patch which was
> sent to the mailing list.
>
> So yes, randomly picking patches from tip-bot2 is not useful at all. The
> mails contain the information to which tip branch the patch has been
> applied, so the only useful information for your bot is to select the
> branch which got the new patches and start testing on that one.
thanks for your patience. I just realize we actually block tip-bot, but
not tip-bot2. I will update the logic to avoid this issue, and we will
keep monitor for a while to fix new issue if any.

>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx