Re: [PATCH 00/21] [Set 2] Rid W=1 warnings from Clock

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:20:46 +0000 Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:49:52 +0000 Lee Jones wrote:  
> > > > Yes, please share.  
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/kuba-moo/nipa  
> > 
> > Thanks for this.
> > 
> > Oh, I see.  So you conduct tests locally, then post them up in a
> > section called 'Checks' using the provided API.  
> 
> For some definition of "locally" - NIPA runs on a rented VM.

Right.  Infrastructure that you control vs by Patchwork.

> > I assume that Patchwork does not alert the user when something has
> > gone awry?  Is this something Nipa does?
> 
> The way we run it on netdev is maintainer-centric, IOW we see 
> the failures in patchwork and complain to people manually.
> The netdev mailing list gets too many messages as is, if NIPA 
> responded with results automatically (which is not that hard
> technically) my concern is that people would be more likely to
> send untested patches to the mailing list and rely on the bot.

That makes sense.  Thank you for the explanation.

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