Re: automated warning notifications

Fengguang Wu
2012-07-06T03:07:07Z

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:48:35AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 08:25:23PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > Hi Fengguang,
> > >
> > > I also check new static checker warnings and sometimes email people.
> >
> > That would be nice!
> >
> > > I wonder if we are duplicating each others work. For example, did
> > > you send an email asking about the following Sparse warning:
> > >
> > > sound/soc/codecs/ab8500-codec.c:1959:53: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (1013 becomes 13)
> >
> > I did try sending out sparse warnings to people, some time ago...
>
> Apparently you have started up again? We're starting to trod on
> each other's toes and people are getting annoyed with me because I
> am reporting them after you... :/

Sorry for that! Yeah I restarted the sparse checks and have been
sending out private emails after basic sanity check. Although there
are 10000 existing sparse warnings, there are only very few *new*
sparse warnings per day. This is pretty acceptable.

> Randy has suggested that we send these automated messages to
> kernel-janitors. I don't know how the other people on kernel
> janitors feel about this but I would be fine with it.

Randy also suggested kernel-janitors. So let's try it. I'll CC
kernel-janitors for all of my error/warning reports and let's check
how well it works.

Thanks,
Fengguang