Re: [feature suggestion] fixup patch review

On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:11:11 +0000 Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> wrote:

> SeongJae Park <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > When a large patch series is posted and an issue on a single patch is found, it
> > is useful to post a fixup patch as a reply to the review, instead of posting
> > the entire new version of the series.  It is useful for doing quick reviews
> > without polluting mailing list and reviewer's inbox.  But it seems sashiko is
> > not reviewing such fixup.  Would it be possible to make sashiko understand and
> > review such fixup patches?
> 
> Hi SJ,
> 
> sorry for the late reply!

No worries, it is never urgent!

> 
> I like the idea but realistically I'm not sure I'll have time to work on
> it short-term. These follow-up fixes are often too context-heavy, e.g.
> are raw untested ideas or are drop-in replacements for some patch in the
> series, so accurately handling all edge-cases might be not exactly trivial.

Thank you for kindly explaining the challenges, I totally agree that.  Having a
sort of command-like reply rule for giving the context in easier and explicit
way, like syzkaller [1], might make it easier, though?

Nevertheless, this is never a urgent feature request but just an attempt to do
FWIW brainstorm discussion.  So no push, no rush!

[1] https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md#testing-patches


Thanks,
SJ