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

Jonathan Corbet
2023-12-05T18:59:37Z

Nikolai Kondrashov <Nikolai.Kondrashov@redhat.com> writes:

> Introduce a new tag, 'Tested-with:', documented in the
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst file.
>
> The tag is expected to contain the test suite command which was executed
> for the commit, and to certify it passed. Additionally, it can contain a
> URL pointing to the execution results, after a '#' character.
>
> Prohibit the V: field from containing the '#' character correspondingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolai Kondrashov <Nikolai.Kondrashov@redhat.com>
> ---
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 ++++++++++
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
> 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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?

Thanks,

jon