Re: [Xenomai-core] [patch] xeno-test email addition

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

Jim Cromie wrote:
> Philippe Gerum wrote:
> 
>> Romain Lenglet wrote:
>>
>>>>>> The -M option works, since I just received an email Id sent
>>>>>> earlier, but I also sent one to xenomai-core, and it hasnt
>>>>>> shown up yet. I suspect that the mail looks like spam, and
>>>>>> has been rejected, since my hostname is not a real FQDN.
>>>>>> So Im not so sure that email is the best way here, but it
>>>>>> is conceptually simple.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oof.  Now attached.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Applied, thanks.
>>>
>>>
> 
> Doh - small err. if [ $sendit = 1 ] needs quotes around the var, for 
> when its undeffd.
> will patch soon.
> 
> Im looking for other things to add, in part to prevent a changelog entry 
> that says
> "fixed a dumb tested-new-but-not-old, so bug got out" entry :-/
> 
> - change the prewired -m email-addy ?  (to xeno-stats@domain.hid)
> - add From: header to get past subscriber-only check.
>    should this be a prewired addy (forex  xeno-test-output@domain.hid)
>    or the user's name ( if so, which ENVAR should we use ?  XENO_USER ?)
> - verbose (send whole config atm, perhaps others later)
> - run xeno-info, xeno-config
> - grep more config-items out of config (for non-verbose mode)
>    latency-killers presumably, PREEMPT, others ?

I'd say stuff from the kernel hacking section adding overhead including 
to primary mode threads, like CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, 
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, and friends. And also those Adeos switches: 
CONFIG_IPIPE_STATS, CONFIG_IPIPE_TRACE.

> - NPTL availability (kinda overkill, since its absence when needed is 
> already detected)
> 
> Can anyone think of other possibly useful raw data ?
> I think Ive already got everything that LiveCD collected, plus some.
> 

Which should be enough to start something sensible, I guess.

> 
> thanks
> jimc
> 
> 
> PS.  Is "Engines of Creation" another Joe Satriani album ?
> 

Yes, released in Y2K.

> PPS.    the dude can *rip* a fretboard.  In "real-time"
> 

Satch plays faster than I can code, which is ok since he does it better too.

> PPPS.  I bet Philippe plays a mean air-guitar ;-)
> 

Nope. Philippe is going to call Vai, Petrucci, Lukather, Van Halen and a 
few others to the rescue, so that the air shivers while the keyboard 
suffers.

-- 

Philippe.