On 11/21/20 9:10 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 08:50 -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> A difficult part of automating commits is composing the subsystem >> preamble in the commit log. For the ongoing effort of a fixer producing >> one or two fixes a release the use of 'treewide:' does not seem appropriate. >> >> It would be better if the normal prefix was used. Unfortunately normal is >> not consistent across the tree. >> >> So I am looking for comments for adding a new tag to the MAINTAINERS file >> >> D: Commit subsystem prefix >> >> ex/ for FPGA DFL DRIVERS >> >> D: fpga: dfl: > I'm all for it. Good luck with the effort. It's not completely trivial. > > From a decade ago: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop/ > > (and that thread started with extra semicolon patches too) Reading the history, how about this. get_mataintainer.pl outputs a single prefix, if multiple files have the same prefix it works, if they don't its an error. Another script 'commit_one_file.sh' does the call to get_mainainter.pl to get the prefix and be called by run-clang-tools.py to get the fixer specific message. Defer minimizing the commits by combining similar subsystems till later. In a steady state case, this should be uncommon. > >> Continuing with cleaning up clang's -Wextra-semi-stmt >> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > [] >> @@ -1567,20 +1567,21 @@ help: >> echo '' >> @echo 'Static analysers:' >> @echo ' checkstack - Generate a list of stack hogs' >> @echo ' versioncheck - Sanity check on version.h usage' >> @echo ' includecheck - Check for duplicate included header files' >> @echo ' export_report - List the usages of all exported symbols' >> @echo ' headerdep - Detect inclusion cycles in headers' >> @echo ' coccicheck - Check with Coccinelle' >> @echo ' clang-analyzer - Check with clang static analyzer' >> @echo ' clang-tidy - Check with clang-tidy' >> + @echo ' clang-tidy-fix - Check and fix with clang-tidy' > A pity the ordering of the code below isn't the same as the above. Taken care thanks! Tom
