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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Pierrick Bouvier" <pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com>,
	"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] gitlab: use --emacs --quiet for checkpatch.pl instead of --terse
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 2026 16:47:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260901154741.1488763-1-berrange@redhat.com> (raw)

The default checkpatch.pl output includes a lot of "progress"
information...

   NN/MM Checking commit HASH (SUBJECT)
   total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 105 lines checked

for large patch series, this results in alot of noise from
clean patches (which are the common case), obscuring the
info about the patch violations.

Since the alerts from gitlab job failures only include the
last few lines of log output, we want the checkpatch.pl
output to be highly relevant to the failure.

We previously addressed that by adding use of the --terse
flag in 7025111a199b97ae806817788bec50f456c47d85, but that
made the output a bit too terse. It no longer prints the
offending line of code, so understanding the CI job failure
now requires manually re-running checkpatch.pl locally.

Using the '--quiet' flag gets rid of the "Check commit HASH.."
messages which create noise, while adding '--emacs' causes
the WARNING/ERROR message lines to include the commit hash.

This is a more useful tradeoff for the CI job logs. The
output is limited to only patches which include code
violations, while still including the offending lines of
code in the output.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 .gitlab-ci.d/check-patch.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/check-patch.py b/.gitlab-ci.d/check-patch.py
index be13e6f77d..45be77295d 100755
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/check-patch.py
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/check-patch.py
@@ -46,7 +46,11 @@
 
 print("\nChecking all commits since %s...\n" % ancestor, flush=True)
 
-ret = subprocess.run(["scripts/checkpatch.pl", "--terse", ancestor + "..."])
+# We don't want "noise" for clean patches, but do want to see
+# the full commit hash for each violation, along with the
+# offending patch content
+ret = subprocess.run(["scripts/checkpatch.pl", "--emacs", "--quiet",
+                      ancestor + "..."])
 
 if ret.returncode != 0:
     print("    ❌ FAIL one or more commits failed scripts/checkpatch.pl")
-- 
2.55.0



             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-01 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-01 15:47 Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2026-09-01 16:20 ` [PATCH] gitlab: use --emacs --quiet for checkpatch.pl instead of --terse Alex Bennée

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