On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 19:43 +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Introduce a new 'V:' ("Verify") field to MAINTAINERS. The field accepts
> a name of a test suite which is required to be executed for each
> contribution to the subsystem.
Perhaps this is simply too much overhead
process requirements f
On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 15:49 +, David Howells wrote:
> Fix some checkpatch complaints in the new iov_iter kunit tests:
>
> (1) Some lines had eight spaces instead of a tab at the start.
>
> (2) Checkpatch doesn't like (void*)(unsigned long)0xnULL, so switch to
> using POISON_POINTER
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 20:02 +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Do not die, but only warn when scripts/get_maintainer.pl is asked to
> retrieve information about a missing file.
>
> This allows scripts/checkpatch.pl to query MAINTAINERS while processing
> patches which are removing files.
Why is t
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 20:02 +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Require the entry values to not contain the '@' character, so they could
> be distinguished from emails (always) output by get_maintainer.pl.
Why is this useful?
Why the need to distinguish?
On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 11:59 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Nikolai Kondrashov writes:
>
> > Introduce a new tag, 'Tested-with:', documented in the
> > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst file.
[]
> I have to ask whether we *really* need to introduce yet another tag for
> this. How are
On Wed, 2023-12-06 at 18:23 +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> On 12/6/23 10:12, David Gow wrote:
> > I'm pretty happy with this personally, though I definitely think we
> > need the support for tests which aren't just executable scripts (e.g.
> > the docs in patch 6).
> >
> > The get_maintailer.p
