Automatically update drm CI dependencies?

[Helen Koike]

Hi,

On 14/12/2023 06:38, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm referring to dependabot PR on torvalds.git GitHub mirror [1]. I know
> that PRs submitted there are not accepted (the repo is essentially read-only
> mirror), hence this mail question.
> 
> In summary, dependabot submitted automated PR that bumps package versions
> in `drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/requirements.txt`. In this case, pip was
> upgraded to 23.3.
> 
>  From my experience, such automated PRs can pollute commit history (in
> some GitHub projects these PR kind can contribute up to half of total
> commits since the beginning of project). And in some projects, dependabot
> PRs are automatically merged without any maintainer intervention.
> 
> Does such PRs (when submitted to LKML these will be patches) make sense
> for DRM subsystem?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/807
> 

imho I rather not having this automated patches, but I would like to 
hear the opinions from others.

Thanks
Helen