Re: [PATCH] devtools: allow patch to multiple groups for the same driver

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:12:40 +0300
Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com> wrote:

> The PMD's source code resides in the ./drivers folder of the
> DPDK project and split into the several groups depending on the
> PMD class (common, net, regex, etc.).
> 
> For some vendors the drivers of different classes operate over
> the same hardware, for example Nvidia PMDs operate over ConnectX
> NIC series. It often happens the same minor fixes should be applied
> to the multiple drivers of the same vendor in the different classes.
> 
> The check-git-log.sh script checks the consistence of patch
> affected files and patch commit message headline and prevents
> updating multiple drivers in single commit.
> 
> This patch mitigates this strict check and allows to update
> multiple drivers in different classes for the single vendor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
> ---
This patch has sat for years now with no response.
As a maintainer, using check-git-log is just advice and it doesn't need to be exact.

So marking this as Rejected due to lack of ack's