linux-kernel - Re: automated warning notifications

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Message-ID: <20120615083100.GA29692@leaf>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:31:00 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...edesktop.org>
To:	Fengguang Wu <wfg@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...970.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: automated warning notifications

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 03:58:10PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:12:22AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:48:35AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > > In an average working day, 1-2 build errors will be caught and email
> > > notified. I guess there will be more sparse warnings if it's turned
> > > on.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps the sparse warnings can be enabled, but only sent to the patch
> > > author. If you and anyone else are interested, they could be sent to
> > > some mailing list, too. One thing I'm sure is, we probably never want
> > > to disturb the busy maintainers with these warnings.
> > 
> > Eventually I think we will want to set up a mailing list for this or
> > we will start sending duplicate messages.
> 
> Fair enough. How can we setup the mailing list? Once the list up, it
> would be trivial for me to send sparse warnings out there.

Rather than a mailing list, how about something like test.kernel.org for
sparse warnings?

- Josh Triplett
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