On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:01:30PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > On Wed, 09/21 15:44, Greg Kurz wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:35:04 -0700 (PDT) > > no-re...@patchew.org wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Your series failed automatic build test. Please find the testing commands > > > and > > > their output below. If you have docker installed, you can probably > > > reproduce it > > > locally. > > > > > > > Heh... of course patchew doesn't know about Stefan's series. :) > > Usually those patchsets fail to apply and patchew keeps quiet. This series is > the first victim of a exception, seemingly. :) > > > > Is there an appropriate way to avoid complaints when sending a patchset that > > isn't based on QEMU master ? > > Currently we don't, but we can invent one. Like: > > Base: http://github.com/someone/qemu branch > > for the "base on maintainer tree" case, or just inform patchew to "pull" > instead of apply: > > Git: http://github.com/someone/qemu topic > > for the "base on the other series" case. > > Supporting this is not complicated, the tricky thing is to remember to put > that > magic in cover letters every time a series doesn't base on master.
Including the message id of the base series is being nice to humans, not just the robots. I mean Stefan does a lot of work, merely saying "follow up to Stefan's work" isn't really sufficient. > > Any thoughts on the harder question? :) > > Fam
