email/patch test requests to 0day robot

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:35:51AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:03:52AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:

quoted

We actually already test LKML patch in that way (Xiaolong maintains
this feature). Nevertheless if developers specify "base-commit:" it
could help eliminate the guessing works by the dumb robot. We'll
appreciate if the "base-commit:" or "base-patchid:" tags are listed
in the patches, especially in some non-obvious situations.

Can I specify multiple base commits for testing stable backports?

For example

base-commit: v4.9.11, v4.4.50, v3.10.105,...

That's reasonable and useful form. BTW for stable testing, it could
be more convenient to specify the branch names:

        stable/linux-4.9.y
        stable/linux-4.4.y
        stable/linux-3.10.y

There is also the RC stable tree available:

        linux-stable-rc/linux-4.9.y
        linux-stable-rc/linux-4.4.y

BTW it looks a bit inconsistent about the tree names "stable" and
"linux-stable-rc". These are the current names the robot refer to each
git tree:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/tree/repo/linux/stable
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/tree/repo/linux/linux-stable-rc

I could rename the latter to "stable-rc" if no other opinions.

quoted

Such tags could be regarded as "explicit" test requests, where we could
send "BUILD COMPLETE" emails as a response (comparing to our normal
LKML patch tests, which only build regressions will trigger an email
notification).

Yap, similar to those you guys sent when a new branch on k.org has been
tested.

Yes.

Btw, can we make the format layout this way:

patch

---

<0day bot tags>

---

so that when we send it to lkml, it doesn't interfere with review by
slapping the tags at the beginning of the patch?

Sure. In fact we currently search for the tags in the whole email body.

Also, should we CC some special mailing list which the 0day bot parses
or lkml is enough?

There are dozens of mailing lists monitored, so the CC could grow too
large to look "normal". So I changed the email subject to make it more
obvious to people.

Cool stuff.

Thank you!
Fengguang