Re: [tip:x86/pti] BUILD SUCCESS WITH WARNING 767d46ab566dd489733666efe48732d523c8c332

From: Philip Li
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 10:10:22 EST


On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:00:44AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 03:36:20PM +0800, Philip Li wrote:
> > The 2nd type is this one, which is a summarized report of head
> > to provide an overview. Most of time, repo owner can receive the
> > bisected mail. For this time, the issue is reported against peterz-queue
> > repo which has this 767d46ab56 head firstly. Since the head later appears
> > in tip, we just gather all issues and send the summary to tip related
> > recipients. But no more bisected mail.
>
> Yeah, but that second report is not very helpful because nowhere it says
> it is a summary and nowhere it has that link you pasted above so that
> some other maintainer can go look.
>
> Always put yourself in the recipient's shoes and ask yourself: "what can
> the recipient do with this report and does it have everything in there
> required to be able to reproduce the issue?"
>
> If not, then it needs changing.
thanks for the advice. We will provide update in 1-2 weeks for the progress
to make the report more informative and useful.

>
> > We will consider how to show useful produce info in summary report as
> > the feedback here, which is quite useful, such like pointing to the
> > bisected mail. This would take some time, and we will add to our TODO
> > as high priority.
>
> Yes, that would be much appreciated. You can also tag your reports with
> a unique hash which is then in an URL so that one can go and download the
> .config and what else is needed. For example...
>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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