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

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Message-ID: <CAPDyKFrhRtLUFfmNNg0iPtJ+Tj5ZzDq6EsYPFc=PY7CmqkFX-g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 10:36:04 +0200
From:   Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>, "w@....eu" <w@....eu>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

On 9 May 2018 at 12:47, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2018 18:03:46 +0900 Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 10:47:57AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> > > I think this is an excellent idea, copying in Stephen for his input.
>> > > I'm currently on holiday but unless someone convinces me it's a terrible
>> > > idea I'm willing to at least give it a go on a trial basis once I'm back
>> > > home.
>>
>> > Since Stephen merges all -fixes branches first, before merging all the
>> > -next branches, he already generates that as part of linux-next. All
>> > he'd need to do is push that intermediate state out to some
>> > linux-fixes branch for consumption by test bots.
>
> Good idea ... I will see what I can do.
>
>> True.  It's currently only those -fixes branches that people have asked
>> him to merge separately which isn't as big a proportion of trees as have
>> them (perhaps fortunately given people's enthusiasm for fixes branches
>> that don't merge cleanly with their development branches) so we'd also
>> need to encourage people to add them separately.
>
> I currently have 44 such fixes branches.  More welcome!

Great!

Stephen, thanks for picking up the idea so quickly!

I will ping the kernelci folkz to request them to include your new
fixes branch for daily builds.

For mmc, please add my fixes branch according to below.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmc.git fixes

Kind regards
Uffe