Re: [PATCH 5/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add emailing results

Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-09T00:58:23Z

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:51:20PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:16:43AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > On Wed 2017-11-08 14:37:37, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > > Developers may not have the time (or inclination) to investigate script
> > > output. This information is, however, useful. If we add functionality to
> > > the script to email results for further investigation.
> > >
> > > Add --send-report flag to email scan results (to Tobin C. Harding).
> >
> > I am not sure that it is wise to make spaming one person
> > so easy ;-)
>
> I agree, I would strongly discourage this, as you will end up getting
> reports from really old kernels for the next 20+ years. We have seen
> that happen for every time we have added a "report this to foo@baz" in a
> kernel log message.
>
> If you _really_ want to do this, at least point it at a mailing list.

Will remove --send-report for next version.

thanks,
Tobin.