Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: make a few more tests generic

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> It's also up to the submitter to keep track of their patches.  If they 
>> think one should be applied that hasn't been, they need to follow up on it. 
>> The only way to scale here is to push as much work as possible to the 
>> outer-most nodes.
>>     
>
> It's just really hard to track stuff without feedback.  You only flush
> your queue very sproadicly, so some kind of indicator that it is in the
> queue would be extremly helpful.  Just an ok, I'll queue it to mean that
> it's not lost means we know it's been deal with in some way, and we can
> ping patches that haven't gotten any feedback for say a week.
>   

What about akpm-style automated notifications that a patch has been 
queued and/or rejected from queue?  These would just go to the sender, 
not the list.

It wouldn't be very hard for me to add this.

And yeah, more frequent queue flushing is a separate problem.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori