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Message-ID: <4398924f28a58fca296d101dae11e7accce80656.camel@perches.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 13:33:12 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Convert -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 to just
-Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang
On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 13:18 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:32 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > > What does it take for this sort of patch to be applied by you?
> >
> > The basic rule tends to be: "normal channels".
> []
> > I pulled from Gustavo earlier today to add a few more expected switch
> > fall-through's, I guess I can take this Makefile change directly.
>
> Thanks. It's simple enough.
>
> There are classes of patches generated by scripts that have
> no real mechanism to be applied today.
>
> For instance: global coccinelle scripted changes to use stracpy
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.1907251747560.2494@hadrien/
>
> and trivial scripted changes to MAINTAINERS
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6482e6546dc328ec47b07dba9a78a9573ebb3e56.camel@perches.com/
>
> that are basically impossible to be applied by anyone but you.
>
> Otherwise there are hundreds of little micro patches most of
> which would not otherwise be applied.
>
> There should be some process available to get these treewide
> or difficult to keep up-to-date and apply patches handled.
>
> I believe these sorts of scripted patches should ideally
> be handled immediately before an RC1 so other trees can be
> synchronized in the simplest way possible.
Hey Stephen
Question for you about a possible -next process change.
Would it be reasonable to have some mechanism to script
treewide patches to generate and apply after Andrew Morton's
mmotm patches are applied to -next?
This could allow treewide scripted patches to have
compilation and test coverage before possibly being
applied to Linus' tree.
What would be necessary to allow this?
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