Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/294] 3.16.50-rc1 review

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Nov 09 2017 - 16:13:24 EST


On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 04:59:58PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 08:03 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:40:36PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 13:21 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:55:30PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > > > > I think if you upload the branch to the stable-rc git, that should produce
> > > > > > the automated build and boot results via email or via the
> > > > > > https://kernelci.org/job/ interface. Once there are some results
> > > > > > there, I'll go through the list once more to see what warnings
> > > > > > and failures remain.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't know of a way to have others push to that tree/branch at the
> > > > > moment :(
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll go update that branch now...
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > With the arm-soc tree, we simply have a shared group-id on
> > > > gitolite.kernel.org and everyone in that group can push to it.
> > > >
> > > > If that is the only thing you need, it should be trivial to let Ben
> > > > and Sasha push to /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/*.git as well,
> > > > I'm sure helpdesk@xxxxxxxxxx can arrange that. Of course if you are
> > > > worried about having multiple accounts with write access to all the
> > > > branches, then that wouldn't be enough.
> > >
> > > I think I'd rather send a pull request to Greg at the start of the
> > > review period.
> > >
> >
> > If you change the trees I am supposed to pull from for my builders,
> > please let me know.
>
> If you're happy to keep supporting quilt-in-git then there's no change.
> I check your builders page and try to fix up build failures before even
> making a release candidate.
>

Ah yes, kernelci won't pick that up. No problem to keep kerneltests going
as long as it adds value.

Guenter