Re: [LTP] [PATCH 1/1] statx04: Remove kernel comments in docparse

[Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>]

Hi all,

thanks all for their input.

> Hi Li

> >     So for me, If remove kernel commit in description, then I only see
> >     useless commit id number, unless I go to search them in kernel org.


> > Not exactly, another thing to make people's attention is test fail with 
> > hint,
> > then we can simply click the link.

> I remember Amir also added a similar feature[1] to xfstests when he 
> become xfs 5.10 stable kernel maintainer.

> So maybe we can add a third colume in tst_test struct's tag field  to 
> cover kernel commit title? Then this kernel comment can be removed.

Amir got inspiration from LTP, but I'm not a big fan of adding manually git
subject which is now added by script.  Also I'd like to address the change we
agree also in fanotify sources.

> Also, I don't have strong obejection to this patch because it seems 
> duplicate, but I just want to keep kernel commit title by using simple way.

I also wonder why people add commits in this verbose form:

 *  commit 93bc420ed41df63a18ae794101f7cbf45226a6ef
 *  Author: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
 *  Date:   Mon Feb 18 09:07:02 2019 +0800
 *
 *  ext2: support statx syscall

If commits are really necessary I'd add them inline, i.e.:

$ git log --pretty=format:'%h ("%s")' -1 93bc420ed41d
93bc420ed41d ("ext2: support statx syscall")

But again, having git hash at the bottom and then full commit on the top looks
to me just a redundancy (I often want to see changes in kernel thus run git show
hash anyway + there is that link in docparse.

So let's wait for opinion of other people.

Kind regards,
Petr

> [1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git/commit/?id=4fb72cffd9e3251149d9fa25daa96b2e26b62eab

> Best Regards
> Yang Xu


> >      58	HINT: You _MAY_ be missing kernel fixes:
> >      59	
> >      60	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93bc420ed41d  <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93bc420ed41d>
> >      61	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=99652ea56a41  <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=99652ea56a41>
> >      62	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=04a87e347282  <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=04a87e347282>  
> >      63https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5f955f26f3d4  <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5f955f26f3d4>


> > -- 
> > Regards,
> > Li Wang

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