On Wed, 16 Jun 2021, Rob Herring wrote: > > - subsystem maintainers can configure whatever CI pre-checks they want before > > the series is sent to them for review (and we can work on a library of > > Github actions, so nobody needs to reimplement checkpatch.pl multiple times) > > What about all the patches that don't come from the GH PR? Those need > CI pre-checks too. We're going to implement CI twice? The biggest > issue I have on CI checks is applying patches. My algorithm is apply > to my current base (last rc1 typically) or give up. I'm sure it could > be a lot smarter trying several branches or looking at base-commit > (not consistently used) or the git diff treeish hashes. What I'd > really like is some bot or script that's applying series and > publishing git branches with a messageid to git branch tool. 0-day is > doing this now. Basically, the opposite direction as others have > mentioned. It exists: it is called patchew and we are using it in QEMU and in Xen Project (https://gitlab.com/xen-project/patchew). It takes patch series off of a mailing list and commits them to a branch to trigger a CI-loop run. It is also able to send back a "passed" or "failed" email to the mailing list. It is great!
