Re: What is tip-bot?

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 02/19/13 16:54, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 19.02.2013 23:54, schrieb Randy Dunlap:
>> On 02/19/2013 02:36 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
>>> Am 19.02.2013 10:54, schrieb richard -rw- weinberger:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Holler
>>>> <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> until now I could successfully suppress my curiosity about those
>>>>> tip:foo
>>>>> messages, but as the bot (or one of them) has now catched me too, I
>>>>> want to
>>>>> ask what it is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Searching for "tip(-)bot" or similiar doesn't reveal some useful info
>>>>> (for
>>>>> obvious reasons). Could someone give me an URL to source or
>>>>> documentation
>>>>> about that tool so that I can enlight myself about it's meaning?
>>>>
>>>> AFAIK tip-bot is a set of shell scripts used by _T_glx, _I_ngo and
>>>> _P_eter. :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> So messages from tip-bot are just acknowledgments (like those from Greg)
>>> that a patch has found it's way into one of the trees, with the
>>> difference that tip-bot sends those acknowledgments to lkml too, whereas
>>> Greg's scripts send them only to involved parties and not the lkml?
>>
>> Yes, that is my understanding of it.
>>
> 
> Thanks a lot for clarification.
> 
> In the meanwhile I've found an article at lwn about the kernel development process which lists many of the git repositories used by various maintainers. And that list includes tip. ;)
> 
> So the reason for my ignorance was that I didn't know that tip is actually the name of a git repository used by the x86 maintainers.

I can understand that.

The kernel tree MAINTAINERS file says for X86:

X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)
M:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
M:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
M:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
M:	x86@kernel.org
T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/core
S:	Maintained
F:	Documentation/x86/
F:	arch/x86/



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~Randy