From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: automated warning notifications
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:12:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120615071222.GZ13539@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120615014835.GA5695@localhost>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:48:35AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> The lots of false warnings are a big problem. It makes the automated
> notification more noises than signals to people. So I end up disabling
> the sparse check totally..
>
I do a basic sanity check of my emails before I send them.
Sometimes I do send false positives. If the warning is introduced
by a very new code then probably the patch author can answer my
question off the top of her head. Also I send some false positives
just to try learn what the rules are.
> In an average working day, 1-2 build errors will be caught and email
> notified. I guess there will be more sparse warnings if it's turned
> on.
>
> Perhaps the sparse warnings can be enabled, but only sent to the patch
> author. If you and anyone else are interested, they could be sent to
> some mailing list, too. One thing I'm sure is, we probably never want
> to disturb the busy maintainers with these warnings.
Eventually I think we will want to set up a mailing list for this or
we will start sending duplicate messages.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-15 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-14 17:25 automated warning notifications Dan Carpenter
2012-06-15 1:48 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-15 7:12 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-06-15 7:58 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-15 8:31 ` Josh Triplett
2012-06-15 8:54 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-15 16:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-06-16 9:17 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-16 17:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-06-15 10:40 ` Julia Lawall
2012-06-15 11:19 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-15 13:33 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-06-15 13:53 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-15 15:49 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-06-15 14:34 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-16 7:50 ` Cong Wang
2012-06-16 9:01 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-07-02 12:45 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-07-06 3:07 ` Fengguang Wu
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