Re: [RFC v5 000/126] error: auto propagated local_err

[Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy]

12.11.2019 16:46, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 22:57:25 +0400
> Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 7:31 PM Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Finally, what is the plan?
>>>
>>> Markus what do you think?
>>>
>>> Now a lot of patches are reviewed, but a lot of are not.
>>>
>>> Is there any hope that all patches will be reviewed? Should I resend the
>>> whole series, or may be reduce it to reviewed subsystems only?
>>
>> I don't think we have well established rules for whole-tree cleanups
>> like this. In the past, several cleanup series got lost.
> 
> Yes, it is always problematic if a series touches a lot of different
> subsystems.
> 
>>
>> It will take ages to get every subsystem maintainer to review the
>> patches. Most likely, since they are quite systematic, there isn't
>> much to say and it is easy to miss something that has some hidden
>> ramifications. Perhaps whole-tree cleanups should require at least 2
>> reviewers to bypass the subsytem maintainer review? But my past
>> experience with this kind of exercice doesn't encourage me, and
>> probably I am not the only one.
> 
> It's not just the reviews; it's easy to miss compile problems on less
> mainstream architectures (and even easier to miss functional problems
> there, although they are probably less likely with automated rework.)
> CI can probably help, but that's something for the future.
> 
> Anyway, I've now gotten around to that series; spotted one problem in
> s390x code, I think.
> 
> One thing that's helpful for such a large series is a git branch that
> makes it easy to give the series a quick go. (You can use patchew, but
> it takes time before it gets all mails, so just pushing it somewhere
> and letting people know is a good idea anyway.)
> 

Thanks for review!

The series are posted here:

https://src.openvz.org/users/vsementsov/repos/qemu/browse

https://src.openvz.org/scm/~vsementsov/qemu.git #tag up-auto-local-err-v5


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Best regards,
Vladimir