Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Pull network and Patch Acceptance Consistency

Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-17T17:24:15Z

Hi Tim,

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 6:48 PM <Tim.Bird@sony.com> wrote:
> - I recently saw a very cool system for isolating new warnings (at all levels
> of W=[0-3]) introduced by a new patch. This would be a great thing to
> add to the kernel build system, IMHO, and that's also on my to-do list.
> - I was very interested in discussions about the mechanism to check whether
> a patch modified the binary or not. It would be nice to make this part of
> the build system as well (something like: "make check-for-binary-change"
>
> Both of the latter items require the ability to set a baseline to compare
> against. So the usage sequence would be:
> - make save-baseline
> - <do commit or pull>
> - make show-new-warnings

https://github.com/geertu/linux-scripts/blob/master/linux-log-diff

linux-log-diff build.log.old build.log.new

That's what I use for "Build regressions/improvements in v5.2-rc5"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190617071937.22838-1-geert@linux-m68k.org/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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