Fwd: Tegra 30 System hangs because of commit "pinctrl: move subsystem mutex to pinctrl_dev struct"

[Grant Likely]

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> My conclusion is that build and boot test systems just don't work in an
>> open source environment as no one actively checks the results.  Why would
>> they - maintainers already have enough to do with reading 6500+ emails a
>> month on mailing lists.  Why bother going to look at a website as well
>> which might give even more work.
>
> Point taken. I was in a discussion some time back with Greg and some
> other people and we concluded that unless the system mails you when
> something breaks it won't make a difference. And it mustn't flood you,
> just be very precise.
>
> Actually the autobuilder at kernel.org helped me out but then stopped
> building my trees at some point, but that was nice and the same thing
> doing boots would be great.

+1 on what has already been stated on this thread; An autobuilder does
work if it emails you when something breaks without spamming you. I've
also found the 0day build tester actually effective. It has caught
things that I've missed and I immediately was able to go an fix.

g.