On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:35:03PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:

On 01/11/2016 07:08 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

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On 2016-01-11 06:11 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:

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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 02:05:36PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:

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On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 10:29:08AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

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On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 10:15:35AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:

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Hi Guenter,
Just a thought. It has happended many times that we both have sent
patches to fix the same build fail. Maybe your patch got applied and
mine came late or maybe mine was applied and you came late. But I think
if we have a separate mailing list where people interested to fix and
monitor build failures will be members and we Cc that list whenever we
send patch for build fail and then in that case we will know that
someone else has already sent a patch for this failure and we can invest
the time in some other problem.

Hi Sudip,

I agree, it would make sense to have a build(/runtime?)-fixes-only mailing
list. Question though is how to limit noise on such a list and, of course,
where and how to set it up. Any thoughts ?

Since most (all?) of these kind of fails are on linux-next, why not

Most or many, but not all.

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do what everyone else does, and report the fail there and/or ensure
the fix is cc'd there?   Before I waste time trying to fix sth on
linux-next, I always google for the error msg and many times that
leads me to a lkml or linux-next post where it was reported and
fixed already.

Many times, Sudip and I end up fixing problems literally in parallel,
and it happened quite often lately that we do send patches in parallel.

sometimes it was a difference of few minutes.

Even if I do a Google search for an error message, it happens quite
often that I get no results, yet the fix is already out there on
some list.

google will take some time to index it.

Sudip, one option would be to set up a semi-private mailing list.
My build tests now have a dedicated virtual host (kerneltests.org).
I could set up a managed list there.

yes, fine with me. As long as we can share the information that one of
us has already sent the fix.

regards
sudip