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

[Andreas Bießmann]

Dear Jason,

Am 18.10.2011 15:05, schrieb 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?

I think of some script that utilizes git rather than changing git.

> 2.) Add a '--versioning' option to format-patch which will scan the
> 	 output directory for previous versions of the patch.

nice, but ...

> 	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 never hold old patches long, they are on the list, patchwork or in my
tree. But feel free to discuss this on git ML. And I doubt this will
help us in near future (remember the debian users ;)

Best regards

Andreas Bießmann