Re: [git pull] drm for v4.7

[Emil Velikov]

On 25 May 2016 at 17:13, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:28 AM, Jani Nikula
> <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> There may be better ones out there, but Artem's "aiaiai" has some
>> helpers [1] for diffing build logs, if you want something simple to
>> integrate into existing scripts.
>
> It would be lovely to have some kind of warning detection, but quite
> frankly, just doing a build and counting lines in 'stderr' from the
> build and having some trigger for "oops, lots of new lines" would be
> sufficient.
>
> So I don't think anything really fancy to diff build logs is
> necessarily needed, although the people who then get the report about
> "your merge causes lots of new warnings" might appreciate it.
>
The Intel 0-Day already checks when patch introduces new warnings,
emailing the author and subsystem with the details. In this particular
case, the patch was out the next day and I was silly enough not to ask
Dave to include it in the same pull request.

Regards,
Emil