RE: [PATCH 4.19 00/56] 4.19.137-rc1 review

[Chris Paterson]

Hi Pavel,

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> Hi!
>
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.137 release.
> > There are 56 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:18:33 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-
> review/patch-4.19.137-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-
> rc.git linux-4.19.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> CIP test farm does not see any problems...
>
> https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-
> /pipelines/173700523
>
> ...except that one of the targets is unavailable.

This is up again now so I've rescheduled the tests.

>
> Chris, could we get distinction between "we ran a test and it failed"
> and "we could not run a test because mice ate the cables"?

You can see that the board is offline in the GitLab CI log, but that's not ideal.
I can change it so the job passes with a nice big green tick, but this may lead people to think that the tests had actually been run.
Maybe we need a yellow icon in the GitLab GUI for this circumstance. Looks like we aren't the first with this request:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/16733

Kind regards, Chris 

>
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>                                                                       Pavel
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