linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

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Date:   Tue, 8 May 2018 02:39:36 +0000
From:   Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
CC:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        "ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "w@....eu" <w@....eu>,
        "julia.lawall@...6.fr" <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

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 :)