On 2024-02-29 21:21, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 01:23, Nikolai Kondrashov <spbnick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> However, I think a better approach would be *not* to add the .gitlab-ci.yaml >> file in the root of the source tree, but instead change the very same repo >> setting to point to a particular entry YAML, *inside* the repo (somewhere >> under "ci" directory) instead. > > I really don't want some kind of top-level CI for the base kernel project. > > We already have the situation that the drm people have their own ci > model. II'm ok with that, partly because then at least the maintainers > of that subsystem can agree on the rules for that one subsystem. > > I'm not at all interested in having something that people will then > either fight about, or - more likely - ignore, at the top level > because there isn't some global agreement about what the rules are. > > For example, even just running checkpatch is often a stylistic thing, > and not everybody agrees about all the checkpatch warnings. > > I would suggest the CI project be separate from the kernel. That would be missing a lot of the point / benefit of CI. A CI system which is separate from the kernel will tend to be out of sync, so it can't gate the merging of changes and thus can't prevent regressions from propagating. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | https://redhat.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and Xwayland developer