Re: [PATCH b4] config: accept prep-pre-flight-checks from .b4-config

Hi Mathieu,

On 7/10/26 5:51 PM, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> Hi Clément,
> 
> On 10/07/2026 17:14, Clément Le Goffic wrote:
>> The .b4-config file is a convenient way to share project-level b4
>> configuration among contributors via version control.  However, only
>> keys matching a set of glob patterns are currently accepted from it
>> (see wtglobs in _setup_main_config).
>>
>> The prep-pre-flight-checks key, which controls which pre-flight
>> checks are enabled or disabled before sending a series, is not
>> matched by any of the existing patterns.  The closest glob,
>> 'prep-*-check-cmd', only matches keys ending in '-check-cmd', not
>> '-checks'.  As a result, setting prep-pre-flight-checks in
>> .b4-config has no effect: the value is silently dropped and the
>> default 'enable-all' is used instead.
>>
>> Add 'prep-pre-flight-checks' to the wtglobs list so it can be set
>> from .b4-config, allowing projects to disable checks (e.g.
>> needs-checking, needs-auto-to-cc) that are not relevant to their
>> workflow and share that decision via version control.
> I don't remember if it was present in this list for security reasons --
> similar to *-check-cmd at some points [1] -- but I do remember a bug
> report with the same patch [2] which has never been applied.
> 
> On my side, I think it would be useful to be able to use
> "disable-needs-auto-to-cc" on some specific dev tree of a
> "sub-subsystem". On these dev branches, no need to add extra reviewers
> from the "parent" subsystem.
> 
> We could then have this config:
> 
>      [b4]
>          send-series-to = <dev ML>
>          prep-pre-flight-checks = disable-needs-auto-to-cc
>          send-prefixes = <specific dev prefix>
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/commit/?id=a1360385
> [2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219705


This is actually what this patch allows.
My usecase is to use b4 in a project unrelated to kernel process and 
internals and I wanted to be able to use and push a .b4-config file with:
"prep-pre-flight-checks = disable-needs-auto-to-cc, disable-needs-checking"
in it so the pre-flight-checks doesn't fire for this project and for 
everyone.
Note that disable all should also work here, not tested.

It should fix the bugzilla bug though.
Should I add a Fixes trailer or something like that?

Regards,
Clément