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From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com>,
	"Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <wilal.deacon@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Chris Fries <cfries@google.com>,
	Dave Weinstein <olorin@google.com>,
	Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tix
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add emailing results
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 11:58:14 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171109005814.GG27823@eros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171108115120.GA2522@kroah.com>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-09  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-08  3:37 [PATCH 0/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add summary report Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08  3:37 ` [PATCH 1/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: use tabs not spaces Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08  3:37 ` [PATCH 2/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: remove dead code Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08  3:37 ` [PATCH 3/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: remove command line options Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08  3:37 ` [PATCH 4/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add reporting Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 10:42   ` Petr Mladek
2017-11-09  0:51     ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08  3:37 ` [PATCH 5/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add emailing results Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 10:16   ` Petr Mladek
2017-11-08 11:51     ` Greg KH
2017-11-09  0:58       ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]
2017-11-08  3:37 ` [PATCH 6/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: fix comment typo Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08  3:37 ` [PATCH 7/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: don't parse usbmon Tobin C. Harding

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