From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49816) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmlTz-0002Kv-7e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:38:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmlTv-0007dA-3M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:38:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmlTu-0007ct-Sm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:38:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 20:38:48 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20160921203609-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <147446363181.4880.18104448248886932114.stgit@bahia> <20160921133428.250669.58191@ex-std-node742.prod.rhcloud.com> <20160921154433.48c307e1@bahia.lab.toulouse-stg.fr.ibm.com> <20160921140130.GA2115@lemon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160921140130.GA2115@lemon> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] virtio: avoid inappropriate QEMU termination List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Fam Zheng Cc: Greg Kurz , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kwolf@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, stefanha@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:01:30PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > On Wed, 09/21 15:44, Greg Kurz wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:35:04 -0700 (PDT) > > no-reply@patchew.org wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Your series failed automatic build test. Please find the testing commands and > > > their output below. If you have docker installed, you can probably reproduce it > > > locally. > > > > > > > Heh... of course patchew doesn't know about Stefan's series. :) > > Usually those patchsets fail to apply and patchew keeps quiet. This series is > the first victim of a exception, seemingly. :) > > > > Is there an appropriate way to avoid complaints when sending a patchset that > > isn't based on QEMU master ? > > Currently we don't, but we can invent one. Like: > > Base: http://github.com/someone/qemu branch > > for the "base on maintainer tree" case, or just inform patchew to "pull" > instead of apply: > > Git: http://github.com/someone/qemu topic > > for the "base on the other series" case. > > Supporting this is not complicated, the tricky thing is to remember to put that > magic in cover letters every time a series doesn't base on master. Including the message id of the base series is being nice to humans, not just the robots. I mean Stefan does a lot of work, merely saying "follow up to Stefan's work" isn't really sufficient. > > Any thoughts on the harder question? :) > > Fam