Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm: Two small fixes for recent syzbot reports

Qian Cai
2020-04-09T21:14:51Z

> On Apr 9, 2020, at 2:06 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:58 AM Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> wrote:
>>
>> Agree to make a big deal part. My point is that when kicking trees of linux-next, it also could reduce the exposure of many patches (which could be bad) to linux-next and miss valuable early testing either from robots or human.
>
> Sure. But I'd want to be notified when something gets kicked out, so
> that I then know not to pull it.
>
> So it would reduce the exposure of patches, but it would also make
> sure those patches then don't make it upstream.
>
> Untested patches is fine - as long as nobody else has to suffer through them.

Excellent. It now very much depends on how Stephen will notify you when
a tree, a patchset or even a developer should be blacklisted for some time
to make this a success.