On 03/18/22 at 03:18pm, Coiby Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 11:27:09AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 03/18/22 at 10:48am, Coiby Xu wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 08:45:35PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > > On 03/04/22 at 10:03am, Coiby Xu wrote:
> > > > > From: Coiby Xu <coxu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > commit 9ec4ecef0af7790551109283ca039a7c52de343c ("kexec_file,x86,
> > > > > powerpc: factor out kexec_file_ops functions" allows implementing
> > > > > the arch-specific implementation of kernel image verification
> > > > > in kexec_file_ops->verify_sig. Currently, there is no arch-specific
> > > > > implementation of arch_kexec_kernel_verify_sig. So clean it up.
> > > >
> > > > This is a nice cleanup, while the log may need to be improved. You
> > > > should run ./scripts/checkpatch.pl on your patch before sending out.
> > > > When we refer to a commit in log, please refer to
> > > > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reminder! I've used git pre-commit hook to run
> > > scripts/checkpatch.pl automatically but obviously this hook doesn't
> > > apply to "git rebase --continue" and currently this no git hook that
> > > for this situation. I'll use the following trick [1] to avoid this
> > > mistake in the future,
> > > $ git rebase -i HEAD~3 --reschedule-failed-exec --exec "git show | perl ./scripts/checkpatch.pl"
> >
> > Sorry, Coiby. It could be late yesterday so I was dizzy when writing
> > down the comment, I didn't make my concern clear. What I meant is
> > the referenced commit in log should be taken in a standard format.
> > Abstracted one paragraph of Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> > here. We usually take the first 12 characters of the commit SHA-1 ID
> > in log, but not the whole of them.
> >
> > =====
> > If you want to refer to a specific commit, don't just refer to the
> > SHA-1 ID of the commit. Please also include the oneline summary of
> > the commit, to make it easier for reviewers to know what it is about.
> > Example::
> >
> > Commit e21d2170f36602ae2708 ("video: remove unnecessary
> > platform_set_drvdata()") removed the unnecessary
> > platform_set_drvdata(), but left the variable "dev" unused,
> > delete it.
> > =====
> >
> > And the right parenthesis enclousing the commit subject is missing.
>
> Thanks for the detailed explanation! Your message has got across to me
> successfully:) I have ran scripts/checkpatch.pl manually after seeing your
> first reply and checkpatch.pl reported the exact same issues as explained
> by you today. My approach of avoiding making mistakes on format is to run
> checkpatch.pl automatically in the git precommit hook so I don't need to
> remember the details about format. I had expected the git precommit hook
> could help me find the issues pointed out by you but obviously it failed.
> So I tried to find out what's wrong. I think the format issues were
> introduced when doing rebase to improve the old version and the precommit
> hook wasn't triggered in this case. Another thing I still missed is I used
> "git diff --cached | scripts/checkpatch.pl" in the pre-commit hook which
> obviously won't check the format issue in the commit message (it only
> check the format issue in the code). With the two problems resolved, I
> shall not make format mistakes in the future:)
>
> Btw, checkpatch.pl seems to requires referring to a specific commit on
> the same line,
>
> ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'commit 9ec4ecef0af7 ("kexec_file,x86,powerpc: factor out kexec_file_ops functions")'
> #6: commit 9ec4ecef0af7 ("kexec_file,x86, powerpc: factor out
> kexec_file_ops
> functions") allows implementing the arch-specific implementation of kernel
> total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 61 lines checked
> NOTE: For some of the reported defects, checkpatch may be able to
> mechanically convert to the typical style using --fix or --fix-inplace.
> "[PATCH] kexec: clean up arch_kexec_kernel_verify_sig" has style problems, please review.
> NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
> them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
>
> Is this a false positive?
No, it's not. Youp probably copied the commit subject and modified it.
Please copy below two lines into your patch to replace and try again.
commit 9ec4ecef0af7 ("kexec_file,x86,powerpc: factor out kexec_file_ops
functions")
>
> >
> > >
> > > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/70568833/1203522
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best regards,
> > > Coiby
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Coiby
>
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