linux-kernel - Re: automated warning notifications

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Message-ID: <CA+MoWDrKJwiK66zpBxQ=q+qS7n_P4qLySgBRdj2txq20wa7bvA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:33:50 -0300
From:	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	Fengguang Wu <wfg@...ux.intel.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>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...edesktop.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...970.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: automated warning notifications

Added git-blame support...

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:40:51AM -0400, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> > > 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.
>>
>> I'm not completely sure that a mailing list would completely eliminate
>> duplicate messages.  But still, it could be the place for people who are
>> interested in seeing such messages to go to, so it seems like a good
>> thing.  I would be happy to contribute content :)
>
> Yeah.  That might be interesting.  If you don't know whether a bug
> is a false positive or not you could submit it to the list for
> people to look at.
>
> I don't know if anyone will actually look at them.  I had been
> planning to filter them to a mail box and automatically ignore
> anything that was a duplicate.  But it might actually be worth
> looking at them as well.  Especially if you email had enough useful
> context so I could tell from the message what the bug is.
>
> Probably we could use something like the attached script to print
> out the line of code which causes the bug and some other script to
> querry git blame and attach the offending commit?
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>



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Peter Senna Tschudin
peter.senna@...il.com
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