On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 08:25:51AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Greg, > > On Tue, 7 May 2019, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Anyway, glad to help out if you want me to. > > Running the scripts is one thing. The more important thing is to figure out > how we are going to review these patches and agree that the conclusion is > correct. Ideally we have lots of Reviewed-by's on each of them. > > Yes, it's 500+ and some of them are really large, but the point is that at > least in my opinion it's enough to carefully review the 'normalized' > patterns which are in the change log. > > I have some postprocessing checks (not yet in utils) which verify that > author/copyright notices which are in the middle of the removed crap are > preserved. > > The other issue which I worked on yesterday night (krobot finding a few > corner cases where the patcher did not handle some odd comment formatting > correctly) should be gone. I just started a new full run to verify that. > > Apropos changelog. You said they need some care. If you check out the utils > repo, there are templates in the step2/3 directories and the subdirectories > of step1. If you could work on them that would be appreciated. What repo are you referring to? Did I miss a link somewhere? thanks, greg k-h
