[U-Boot] [STATUS] "Quality" of patches / testing.

[Jason]

Wolfgang,

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:44:37AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Andreas,
> 
> In message <4E9D4552.5040506 at gmail.com> you wrote:
> > I guess it will be doable to have some scripts/prepare-patch which runs
> >  a) git format-patch
> >  b) checkpatch on the patch
> >  c) (configurable subset of) MAKEALL on some clean tree with that patch
> >     applied
> >  d) append the results to the patch
> > 
> > This tool would implement some kind of CI but utilize the computing
> > power of submitter.
> 
> Sounds good.  Any takers?

I've been mulling this over, and here's my approach:

1.) modify git to add a hook in format-patch, output is dumped after the
	 '---' and before the diff.  We use this the run checkpatch.pl with our
	 config.  Our script includes a version tag of checkpatch.pl?

2.) Add a '--versioning' option to format-patch which will scan the
	 output directory for previous versions of the patch.
	a.) Use the Message-Id of the first version as an In-Reply-To
	b.) Migrate patch changelog over from previous version, append '***
		 ADD CHANGELOG ENTRY HERE ***'
	c.) enforce [PATCH 1/7 V#] Subject line format.

I think this would be more flexible, and would help many projects, not
just u-boot.

thx,

Jason.