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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Ignacio Peña" <ignacio.pena87@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch: suggest including testing evidence
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:59:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025072216-properly-chowtime-0485@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250721162437.6691-3-ignacio.pena87@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 12:24:34PM -0400, Ignacio Peña wrote:
> For non-trivial changes, it's valuable to know how the change was
> tested. Add a gentle suggestion when commit messages don't mention
> any testing, verification, or validation.
> 
> This is a CHECK level notification, not a WARNING, as testing methods
> vary greatly depending on the subsystem and type of change.
> 
> The check is skipped for very short commit messages (documentation
> fixes, typos) where testing information would be excessive.

This will cause people to write short commit messages in order to avoid
this type of warning.

I don't think this is a necessary check at all, I can't remember the
last time any patch I wrote would pass this check :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2025-07-22  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-21 16:24 [PATCH 1/3] checkpatch: warn about novice phrases in commit messages Ignacio Peña
2025-07-21 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] checkpatch: enforce 12-char SHA for Fixes tags Ignacio Peña
2025-07-22  8:00   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-07-21 16:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch: suggest including testing evidence Ignacio Peña
2025-07-22  7:59   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2025-07-22 17:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] checkpatch: warn about novice phrases in commit messages Joe Perches
2025-07-23  3:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Ignacio Peña
2025-07-23  3:02   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] checkpatch: enforce 12-char SHA for Fixes tags Ignacio Peña
2025-07-23  5:18     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-07-23  3:26   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] checkpatch: warn about novice phrases in commit messages Joe Perches
2025-07-24  3:28   ` [PATCH v3] " Ignacio Peña
2025-07-24  7:04     ` Joe Perches

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