Re: [PATCH] perf_event, powerpc: Fix compilation after big perf_counter rename

Ingo Molnar
2009-09-24T12:14:42Z

* Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 14:44 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 18:00 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 09:28 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Nevertheless you are right that i should have caught this particular
> > > > > PowerPC build bug - i missed it - sorry about that!
> > > > >
> > > > Allright. Well, to help in general, we are setting up a build-bot
> > > > here too that will build -tip HEAD for at least powerpc daily with
> > > > a few configs too.
> > >
> > > Results here:
> > >
> > > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/branch/12/
> >
> > ok, seems green for today - the two failures are: one a powerpc
> > toolchain problem it appears, plus a mainline warning.
>
> Yep that looks more or less normal.
>
> > Btw., for me to be able to notice failures there it would have to
> > email me automatically if there's any -tip build failures that do
> > not occur with the upstream branch. Does it have such a feature?
>
> Not really, it sends mails to me, but it doesn't have a way to filter
> them by branch. I think the plan is we'll keep an eye on it and either
> send you patches or at least let you know that it's broken.

how many mails are those per day, typically? If there's not too many and
if there's a way to send all of them to me i could post-filter them for
-tip relevance. If that is feasible. You bouncing it to me later is
certainly also a solution. (but lengthens the latency of fixes,
obviously.)

Ingo