Re: [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Introduce V: field for required tests

Mark Brown
2023-11-16T13:26:25Z

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On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 02:14:24PM +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:

> Yes, that would be better indeed. However, checkpatch.pl doesn't process
> cover letters, and so we would have no automated way to advertise and nudge
> people towards testing.

Back when I used to run checkpatch it seemed to cope, it obviously
wouldn't find much to look at in there but you could feed it an entire
series with cover letter and the cover letter wouldn't cause any extra
issues.

> P.S. Git forges do that for you by nature of actually running the tests
> themselves, automatically. *Ducks*

The ability of forges to run tests is not hugely relevant to large
portions of the kernel, for drivers you're wanting the tests to run on
the relevant hardware and even core changes will often need hardware
that exercises the relevant features to run. In these areas you're more
just looking for someone to say that they've done relevant testing but
there's not a substantial difference between say a comment on a pull
request or a followup email.

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