Re: ChipIdea USB regression

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 11:34 AM Thorsten Leemhuis
<regressions@leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
> On 18.01.22 17:53, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 4:21 AM Thorsten Leemhuis
> > <regressions@leemhuis.info> wrote:
> >>
> >> [TLDR: I'm adding this regression to regzbot, the Linux kernel
> >> regression tracking bot; most text you find below is compiled from a few
> >> templates paragraphs some of you might have seen already.]
> >>
> >> Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker speaking.
> >>
> >> Adding the regression mailing list to the list of recipients, as it
> >> should be in the loop for all regressions, as explained here:
> >> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/reporting-issues.html
> >>
> >> On 14.01.22 11:56, Charles Keepax wrote:
> >>> Hi guys,
> >>>
> >>> My Zynq based board stopped booting today, a bisect points to this
> >>> patch:
> >>>
> >>> commit 0f153a1b8193 ("usb: chipidea: Set the DT node on the child device")
> >>
> >> Thanks for the report.
> >>
> >> To be sure this issue doesn't fall through the cracks unnoticed, I'm
> >> adding it to regzbot, my Linux kernel regression tracking bot:
> >>
> >> #regzbot ^introduced 0f153a1b8193
> >> #regzbot title usb: chipidea: Zynq based board stopped booting today
> >> #regzbot ignore-activity
> >>
> >> Reminder: when fixing the issue, please add a 'Link:' tag with the URL
> >> to the report (the parent of this mail) using the kernel.org redirector,
> >
> > 'kernel.org redirector' is lore.kernel.org? It would be clearer to
> > just say that.
>
> Yes/No it's lore.kernel.org/r/ (and not lore.kernel.org/list-foo/).
> You're right I'll rephrase next time.

Or now lore.kernel.org/all/...

> >> as explained in 'Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst'. Regzbot
> >> then will automatically mark the regression as resolved once the fix
> >> lands in the appropriate tree. For more details about regzbot see footer.
> >
> > Would it be possible for you to provide the exact link tag in your
> > reports? That would be easier and less error prone than describing
> > what to do in prose.
>
> Hmm. The webui already provides this (and other things you likely want
> to add) when you show the details for a tracked regression or visit its
> individual page:
>
> https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/mainline/
> https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/20220114105620.GK18506@ediswmail.ad.cirrus.com/

That is the link I was originally expecting for when I went back to this thread.

> I see that it would be convenient for developers and less error prone if
> I could mention the proper Link: tag in mails like the one you quoted,
> that's why I considered that already. But it would make the regression
> tracker's job (aka my "job", which I'm kinda doing in my spare time) yet
> again somewhat harder, as I see no easy solution to automate that when
> writing these mails (which I do with thunderbird, currently). That's why
> I decided to not do that for now, as that job is already hard enough and
> I don't want to get burned out by this a second time; and those link
> tags are something that were expected from developers even before I came
> with regzbot.

Fair enough, I thought this was more automated than it is. I have some
scripts for writing replies[1] if that helps. I wrote them because I
couldn't find any that would quote emails. (Maybe because it's a pain
dealing with all the encodings). They are geared toward patches in
terms of trimming the email, but shouldn't be too hard to adapt.

Rob

[1] https://gitlab.com/robherring/pw-utils