How does Kernel Testing Robot work with linux-next tree?

[Dongliang Mu]

Hi Dan,

As you know, we develop a kernel testing robot helping automatically
check patches from kernel newbies [1].

We would like our testing robot to work with the linux-next tree.
Previously we tried to use git pull to automatically retrieve updates
from linux-next tree[2]. However, this tree cannot be merged
automatically. You will encounter some errors in executing git pull.
After checking documents, we found that our way to work with
linux-next tree is incorrect.

One way to tackle this is to download linux-next snapshot source code
package, but it wastes lots of time in allyesconfig compilation.

Any ideas about this issue? I am looking forward to your reply.

[1] https://gitee.com/dzm91_hust/KTestRobot
[2] https://gitee.com/dzm91_hust/KTestRobot/blob/main/KTBot/botinit.go#L113

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My best regards to you.

No System Is Safe!
Dongliang Mu

[Dan Carpenter]

I don't know how the zero day bot works, sorry. Philip Li gave a talk
about it at Linux Plumbers Conference last week but his talk was shifted
to a different time so I missed part of it.

https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1537/attachments/1183/2507/LPC%202023%20-%20The%20path%20to%20achieve%20a%20bug-free%20build%20on%20the%20mainline.pdf

regards,
dan carpenter

[Dongliang Mu]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 8:57 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.ca...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 05:52:32PM +0800, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > As you know, we develop a kernel testing robot helping automatically
> > check patches from kernel newbies [1].
> >
> > We would like our testing robot to work with the linux-next tree.
> > Previously we tried to use git pull to automatically retrieve updates
> > from linux-next tree[2]. However, this tree cannot be merged
> > automatically. You will encounter some errors in executing git pull.
> > After checking documents, we found that our way to work with
> > linux-next tree is incorrect.
> >
> > One way to tackle this is to download linux-next snapshot source code
> > package, but it wastes lots of time in allyesconfig compilation.
> >
> > Any ideas about this issue? I am looking forward to your reply.
> >
> > [1] https://gitee.com/dzm91_hust/KTestRobot
> > [2] https://gitee.com/dzm91_hust/KTestRobot/blob/main/KTBot/botinit.go#L113
>
> I don't know how the zero day bot works, sorry. Philip Li gave a talk
> about it at Linux Plumbers Conference last week but his talk was shifted
> to a different time so I missed part of it.

Thanks, Dan. I will write an email to Philip Li since the 0-day test
robot is closed-source.