Re: script to check "Fixes:" tags

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 08:06:18PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 8:01 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 09:49:55AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:51 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > Since this list was created to share scripts, here's one that I
> > > > currently use to test that the "Fixes:" tags are correct on a commit.  I
> > > > run it on all patches that I accept into my trees, after getting emails
> > > > from Stephen one too many times :)
> > > >
> > > > It's almost entirely based on Stephen's original script, but has been
> > > > changed a bit in formatting and usage to be a stand-alone script that
> > > > anyone can use.
> > > >
> > > > To use:
> > > >         verify_fixes.sh GIT_RANGE
> > > >
> > > > if all is good, script will print nothing out and exit with success.  If
> > > > there is a problem it will be printed out and the script will exit with
> > > > an error that you can check from any other program.
> > > >
> > > > It it 'shellcheck' clean, but I'm sure that there are other things wrong
> > > > with it, so feel free to point out problems.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > > And should stuff like this be in the kernel tree itself?
> > >
> > > Probably this should be integrated into checkpatch.pl?
> >
> > I can't run checkpatch.pl on everything as sometimes I need to take
> > patches that do not pass it :)
> 
> Running checkpatch and taking patches are not mutually exclusive ;-)
> 
> > checkpatch.pl is supposed to check for s-o-b but for some reason I don't
> > think it does all of the checking that my other script does.  Or at
> > least I haven't noticed it.
> 
> May be true, but it doesn't help to fragment the checking script space.
> Just like we just want to run get_maintainer.pl, we just want to run
> checkpatch.pl, don't we?

do we?

Again, I can't do it in my "workflow" at the moment.  This list was for
people to post what they do and get comments.

And a comment of "don't use the tool you have, use something else that
doesn't do what you really need to do", isn't all that helpful :)

I just noticed that checkpatch can handle a git range, so I'll revisit
it and see if I can "just test one thing" with it or not, next week.

thanks,

greg k-h