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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 04:14:04 EST


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.

> 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.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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