Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 07:42:17AM +0900, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 08:52:29PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
>> As for -next, me and others stopped reporting bugs in it, because when we do
>> we tend to get flamed for the "noise". Is anyone aware (or cares) that mips
>> and nds32 images don't build ? Soaking clothes in an empty bathtub won't make
>> them wet, and bugs in code which no one builds, much less tests or uses, won't
>> be found.
>
>You've been flamed for testing -next?  That's not been my experience and
>frankly it's pretty horrifying that it's happening.  Testing is pretty
>much the whole point of -next existing in the first place so you have to
>wonder why people are putting their trees there if they don't want
>testing.  I have seen a few issues with people reporting bugs on old
>versions of -next but otherwise...

This is just wrong, what else is -next for?

FWIW, our (MSFT) testing folks should now be reporting issues they see
on our -next testing pipeline directly to LKML. There's not much volume
there given that the 0-day bot catches most of the issues anyways, but
we sometimes see odd regressions given that no one else seems to test
Linux on Hyper-V but us :)