Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Any feedback for -next?

On 13/08/2026 13:25, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 11:59:19AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 04:42:21AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> 
>>> Would getting rid of these ephemeral commits make linux-next easier
>>> to work with?
> 
>> I think this is a problem that we can easily address using tools. next
>> already has scripts to detect these issues and I think perhaps we can
>> provide a variant of those in a way that would allow people to set them
>> up in their tree as maybe git hooks so they automatically get run on
>> pre-push or something.
> 
> Krzysztof Kozlowski did a bunch of scripts/hooks that the soc tree
> people use, that's probably an easy thing for people to integrate,
> though since I don't have the URL to hand I guess it needs more
> publicity.

Here's the most recent variant of the toolset I collected from Greg and
Steven + a few new (like to avoid back-merging b4 branches which did
happen in the past... remember the day b4 was non-working for every
contributor using mainline kernel?):
https://web.git.kernel.org//pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc-tools.git


The hooks are trivial to setup, I even added install.sh, so honestly
having incorrect "Fixes" tags or missing SoB by the maintainer cannot be
excused really.

I was describing them in my speech about maintainer's toolbox 3 years ago:
https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1498/


Best regards,
Krzysztof