Re: [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Introduce V: field for required tests

Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.kernelci,org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest,org.kernel.vger.workflows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 19:43 +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Introduce a new 'V:' ("Verify") field to MAINTAINERS. The field accepts
> a name of a test suite which is required to be executed for each
> contribution to the subsystem.

Perhaps this is simply too much overhead
process requirements for most kernel work.

While the addition of V: seems ok, I think
putting the verification in checkpatch is
odd at best and the verification of test
execution should be a separate script.
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