[xenial][PATCH v3 0/8] [Hyper-V] Implement Hyper-V PTP Source
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Mon Jul 3 20:22:05 UTC 2017
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 04:28:59PM -0300, Marcelo Cerri wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 02:54:02PM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > On 03/07/17 14:49, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> > > By the way, you missed BugLinks on the last 4 patches. I added them.
>
> Thank you, Thadeu.
>
> > >
> > > Cascardo.
> > >
> >
> > Given that there are a set requirements for submitting a patch, such as
> > a buglink, is their scope for a checkpatch like tool to sanity check
> > patches before one sends them to the list to catch this nitpicks?
>
> It's an interesting idea. Although `verify-release-ready` is probably a
> good filter to avoid some of the issues to be included in a release, a
> checkpatch like tool might catch these problems earlier.
>
> Is there any other checks that might be useful to include? I can work on
> an initial version of such tool. One question though, is where should we
> keep this tool? It doesn't sound a good idea to keep it in tree as
> checkpatch.
I think it would go in kteam-tools as much as anything does.
-apw
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