From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422775Ab3FUB47 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:56:59 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53164 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422651Ab3FUB46 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:56:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:57:39 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Michael Ellerman , Fabio Estevam , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell Subject: Re: Nightly stable builds [Was: fec: Fix build for MCF5272] Message-ID: <20130621015739.GA25649@kroah.com> References: <1371575099-2962-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20130619204348.GA7314@roeck-us.net> <20130619221519.GB9518@kroah.com> <20130619232415.GA27990@roeck-us.net> <1371777661.5490.2.camel@concordia> <20130621014641.GA26818@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130621014641.GA26818@roeck-us.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 06:46:41PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:21:01AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 16:24 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 03:15:19PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:43:48PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:42:36AM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote: > > > > > > Hi Guenter, > > > > > > > > > > > > FYI > > > > > > > > > > > > I asked Stephen to include m5272c3_defconfig as part of his daily > > > > > > build and now it is available: > > > > > > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8991795/ > > > > > > > > > > > Nice front-end. > > > > > > > > > > Greg, would it be useful to set up something similar for pending stable builds ? > > > > > I have back-end code doing that running on one of my servers at home, but no > > > > > web front-end. > > > > > > > > > > Any idea whom to talk to to set this up ? Stephen ? Michael ? > > > > > > > > I have no idea. I publish the stable build patches all publically, so a > > > > build-bot could easily be built using it, which would be great to have. > > > > > > > The build-bot isn't the problem; as I mentioned above, I already have one > > > running. I was referring to a web front-end for it. > > > > Hi Guenter, > > > > Actually I hate the web front end, but that's because I wrote it :) > > > > It's pretty, but it doesn't scale very well, "one of these days" I'll > > rewrite it. My plan is to actually just make it a frontend for buildbot > > - but I never have time :) > > > Time is my problem too ... but then it is more costly for me if a problem > makes it into a release, so I have some interest in getting builds > (and at some point run tests) automated as much as possible. > > > We already build the published stable branches, see: > > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/branch/ > > > > But I think you're talking about building the patch queues before they > > go into git? If so the only hurdle would be someone publishing a git > > Yes, that is the idea. > > > tree of them - kisskb only knows how to build git trees. > > > I "solved" that problem by creating a front-end to my own nightly build script, > which also works on git repos. Essentially it takes the stable queue from Greg's > repo on kernel.org, executes quiltimport on top of the respective stable > branch, and then starts the actual build script. > > Would it help if I manage to automate that and publish the resulting branches in > a repository on kernel.org, say, on a nightly basis ? > > Another key advantage of having a git repository would be that it would trigger > auto-builds as well as smatch runs by others, so test coverage would be much > better than today. > > Greg, would it be ok with you if I create such a repository, or would you want > to create and manage one yourself ? I don't want to create any such repo, so feel free to do it yourself :) thanks, greg k-h