On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 05:33:06PM -0500, Tamir Duberstein wrote: > > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git lib/xarray.c > > > Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:XARRAY,commit_signer:1/3=33%,authored:1/3=33%,added_lines:19/52=37%,removed_lines:4/23=17%) > > > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:LIBRARY CODE,commit_signer:3/3=100%) > > > > I'm not sure what you're asking. I used `b4 prep --auto-to-cc`. It > > doesn't know that test_xarray.c and xarray.c have the same maintainer. > > You need to use your brain. You can't just say "I used the tool". > Tools are just tools. Sometimes they're wrong. My email address is > listed as the Author: of test_xarray.c. You should have noticed that. The whole point of tools is to liberate stupid humans' brains like mine from mundane tasks like working out who to email. The tool wasn't wrong; it did exactly what you told it to do in your MAINTAINERS entry. > > For what it's worth the kunit invocation, while obscure, is > > self-documenting. There's usage information that's reasonably > > understandable embedded in the tool itself. I looked for the userspace > > testing initially but failed to find > > tools/testing/radix-tree/xarray.c. Even now, I'm not sure how I'm > > meant to compile this. > > kunit is useless. The test_xarray.c module is useless. If you break > xarray, the kernel won't boot far enough to load any modules. You > haven't thought about this AT ALL. I don't understand what you're saying here. > cd tools/testing/radix-tree > make > > Then you can run the tests, whichever ones make sense for you to run. Thanks.
