Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/10] docs: submitting-patches: Introduce Tested-with:

Nikolai Kondrashov
2023-12-06T16:46:35Z

On 12/5/23 21:07, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 11:59 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Nikolai Kondrashov <Nikolai.Kondrashov@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> Introduce a new tag, 'Tested-with:', documented in the
>>> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst file.
> []
>> I have to ask whether we *really* need to introduce yet another tag for
>> this. How are we going to use this information? Are we going to try to
>> make a tag for every way in which somebody might test a patch?
>
> In general, I think
> Link: <to some url test result>
> would be good enough.
>
> And remember that all this goes stale after awhile
> and that includes old test suites.

Yeah, things go stale, for sure. And Link: will work for specifying the test
results (provided the contents says what the test was), but it doesn't help
maintainers to know immediately which tests were executed and which weren't.

It also won't allow involving checkpatch.pl in checking the submitter ran all
the required tests, and telling them to run whatever they didn't.

Nick