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Message-ID: <7cf21703-391a-4123-b862-14a1af62aeaa@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 14:30:08 +0700 From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> To: Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info> Cc: bwg <whirl@...otilta.ca>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, shibedrill1@...il.com Subject: Re: Fwd: Kernel 6.6.1 hangs on "loading initial ramdisk" On 12/10/23 14:15, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote: > [Moved a lot of people CCed in the previous mail to BCC, as I'm pretty > sure they do not care about this regression; at the same time add the > x86 maintainers and the efi list.] > > [Top posting for once to make this easier accessible for everyone.] > > Ard, Boris, just to make it obvious: the regression report quoted below > was bisected to a1b87d54f4e45f ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor > when doing EFI boot") [v6.6-rc1] from Ard which committed by Boris. > There are two users that seem to be affected by this. Both seem to run > Arch. For details see: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218173 > > Bagas, FWIW, I know you want to help, but your previous mail is not > helpful at all -- on the contrary, as it is yet another one that is > likely hurting my regression tracking efforts[1]. Please stop and just > tell me about things like this in a private mail, as we agreed on earlier. > > Ciao, Thorsten > > [1] This is why: You just added Ard and Boris to the CC, but did not > make it obvious *why* they should care about that mail. They (and all > the other recipients) for sure will have no idea what a1b87d54f4e45f > exactly is, so you should have mentioned the commit summary. And doing > that after a big quote makes it worse, as many people now need to scroll > down to see if that mails contains something that might be relevant for > them -- and just a waste of time if not. > > Furthermore, sending the first mail of the thread to all those people > and lists was likely not very wise, as nobody is likely to care in a > case like this. And not removing all those people and lists in the > second mail of the thread make it a lot worse, as it became clear that > many people and list do not care about it now that the regression was > bisected. Hence it's best to remove them, we all get enough mail already. > > All that makes people ignore mails from you -- and maybe about > regression tracking in general. :-( > Oops, I didn't greet additional Cc's as you mentioned (that's my tendency when handling regressions). So maybe we continue tracking this on Bugzilla or keeping on ML or both? Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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