netdev - Re: syzcaller patch postings...

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Date:   Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:03:10 +0100
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: Re: syzcaller patch postings...

Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 16:47 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> >> I have to mention this now before it gets out of control.
> >>
> >> I would like to ask that syzkaller stop posting the patch it is
> >> testing when it posts to netdev.
> >
> > There is an open issue on this topic:
> >
> > https://github.com/google/syzkaller/issues/526
> >
> > The current behaviour is that syzbot replies to all get_maintainer.pl
> > recipients after testing a patch, regardless of the test submission
> > recipient list, the idea was instead to respect such list.
>
> 
> Hi David, Florian, Paolo,
> 
> Didn't realize it triggers patchwork. This wasn't intentional, sorry.
> 
> Do I understand it correctly that if syzbot replies to the CC list
> that was in the testing request, it will resolve the problem? So if
> netdev wasn't in CC, it will not be added to CC.

Yes, thats at least my expected/desired behaviour.
This way I can even CC some other person (maintainer, reporter etc)
to have them informed about test result too.

> I will go and fix it now.

Thank you Dmitry!