email/patch test requests to 0day robot

[Fengguang Wu]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:35:51AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:03:52AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > We actually already test LKML patch in that way (Xiaolong maintains
> > this feature). Nevertheless if developers specify "base-commit:" it
> > could help eliminate the guessing works by the dumb robot. We'll
> > appreciate if the "base-commit:" or "base-patchid:" tags are listed
> > in the patches, especially in some non-obvious situations.
>
> Can I specify multiple base commits for testing stable backports?
>
> For example
>
> base-commit: v4.9.11, v4.4.50, v3.10.105,...

That's reasonable and useful form. BTW for stable testing, it could
be more convenient to specify the branch names:

       stable/linux-4.9.y
       stable/linux-4.4.y
       stable/linux-3.10.y

There is also the RC stable tree available:

       linux-stable-rc/linux-4.9.y
       linux-stable-rc/linux-4.4.y

BTW it looks a bit inconsistent about the tree names "stable" and
"linux-stable-rc". These are the current names the robot refer to each
git tree:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/tree/repo/linux/stable
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/tree/repo/linux/linux-stable-rc

I could rename the latter to "stable-rc" if no other opinions.

> > Such tags could be regarded as "explicit" test requests, where we could
> > send "BUILD COMPLETE" emails as a response (comparing to our normal
> > LKML patch tests, which only build regressions will trigger an email
> > notification).
>
> Yap, similar to those you guys sent when a new branch on k.org has been
> tested.

Yes.

> Btw, can we make the format layout this way:
>
> patch
>
> ---
>
> <0day bot tags>
>
> ---
>
> so that when we send it to lkml, it doesn't interfere with review by
> slapping the tags at the beginning of the patch?

Sure. In fact we currently search for the tags in the whole email body.

> Also, should we CC some special mailing list which the 0day bot parses
> or lkml is enough?

There are dozens of mailing lists monitored, so the CC could grow too
large to look "normal". So I changed the email subject to make it more
obvious to people.

> Cool stuff.

Thank you!
Fengguang