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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH lp-metadata 2/3] livepatch: Handle arbitrary size names with the list operation



Hi Lars,

On 15/08/2019 16:46, Lars Kurth wrote:


On 15 Aug 2019, at 16:33, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:



On 15 Aug 2019, at 16:19, Wieczorkiewicz, Pawel <wipawel@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:wipawel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Hi Lars, Julien,

Thanks for the pointers, I will read them up and follow the recommendations with my future contributions.
Sorry for the mess…

It's not really a mess: it must have been quite a pain to put the mails together manually
And it would become more painful for a second revision
I have been through this myself

But, let me ask first before reading the wikis, how do you prefer submitting series that contain patches belonging to 2 distinct repos (e.g. xen and livepatch-build-tools)?

That's a good question and a very rare use-case. We split them, as all the tools such as git format-patch only work on one repo
Applying patches also only works on a per repo basis

So, I would send two series. But mention the relationship in the cover letter (and/or patch if it is a single one)

The tools in the docs currently may not work on livepatch-build-tools.git
* First: there is no MAINTAINERS file in livepatch-build-tools.git, which really should be added * Second: using xen.git:/scripts/add_maintainers.pl may not work when called from within livepatch-build-tools.git

I am going to play with this and update the docs and if needed the tools accordingly
You may have to improvise in the meantime:
* Step 1 & 3 will work: Step 2, option 1 will probably not (which means until I have done this, you may have to follow option 2 and make sure that the right people are CC'ed)

I can confirm that Step 2 does not work without some tools changes to scripts/add_maintainers.pl when called from within a non-xen.git repo

And

git send-email --to xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --cc-cmd="../xen.git/scripts/get_maintainer.pl" --dry-run -1

errors with

../xen.git/scripts/get_maintainer.pl: The current directory does not appear to be a Xen source tree.

I need to fix this. Hopefully get_maintainer.pl isn't too dependant on the actual Xen tree

get_maintainer.pl relies on the current working directory to be the top of tree.

At the moment, it checks various file are present (see top_of_tree) but I think it should be feasible to just relax it to just MAINTAINERS.

The risk is a user may end up to call the wrong MAINTAINERS file if it messes up the current working directory (i.e calling for Xen patches from livepatch-tools). Not sure if this is a real concern though...

Note that Linux has a similar check to ensure the user is on the right directory (i.e

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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