linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] kbuild: make W=1 warn files that are tracked but ignored by git

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNASOxXp9WxZUBbWRYeMJ=CXwxSAV60cEMBnxc+qCwu_o0g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:52:49 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] kbuild: make W=1 warn files that are tracked but
 ignored by git

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:50 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 04:41:37PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:31:07PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 10:25 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > > <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 04:43:10PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > > > The top .gitignore comments about how to detect files breaking
> > > > > .gitignore rules, but people rarely care about it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Add a new W=1 warning to detect files that are tracked but ignored by
> > > > > git. If git is not installed or the source tree is not tracked by git
> > > > > at all, this script does not print anything.
> > > > >
> > > > > Running it on v6.2-rc1 detected the following:
> > > >
> > > > Since patch was published there is no sign it was ever meet Linux Next.
> > > > What's the plan?
> > >
> > > Oh?
> >
> > Sorry, my mistake. I need to understand why these patches do not fix
> > the issue I have.
>
> OK, after carefully reading the commit message it's actually the culprit of
> the warnings I have.
>
> So, it seems we need to wait maintainers / developers of the respective code
> to go and fix this. Is it your intention?


Yes.
I expect the 0day bot will block new breakages,
but actually the mainline got more warnings
under kselftest.




-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada