[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] dim: Triple-check and tripe warning when merging patches that touch files outside i915.

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com> wrote:
> Most of commiters already knows that by heart and also dim already
> have this warning. So maybe this is just Bart writing to blackboard. Duh!
>
> Anyway for my own usage this tripe check will help for sure.
> Maybe it help someone else in the future.

Well, this has changed with drm-misc; very few of the commits there have
acks from Dave. And that was sort of the point in that tree, to scale
better and not depend on his acks on every little detail.

I suppose the checks in dim could be branch specific.

BR,
Jani.


>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> ---
>  dim           | 4 ++++
>  drm-intel.rst | 4 +++-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/dim b/dim
> index eec5e43..73f6212 100755
> --- a/dim
> +++ b/dim
> @@ -933,6 +933,10 @@ function checkpatch_commit
>  			echo -e "The following files are outside of i915 maintenance scope:\n"
>  			echo "$non_i915_files"
>  			echo -e "\nConfirm you have appropriate Acked-by and Reviewed-by for above files."
> +			local acked_by_airlie=$($cmd | grep "Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>")
> +			if [ "$acked_by_airlie" == "" ]; then
> +			    echo -e "\nRemind that for drm you should have an Acked-by from Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>"
> +			fi
>  		fi
>  	fi
>  }
> diff --git a/drm-intel.rst b/drm-intel.rst
> index 79db1cf..583a687 100644
> --- a/drm-intel.rst
> +++ b/drm-intel.rst
> @@ -300,7 +300,9 @@ the right decisions, and for others to set their the expectations right.
>  
>  The short list:
>  
> -* Only push patches changing `drivers/gpu/drm/i915`.
> +* Only push patches changing `drivers/gpu/drm/i915`. If dim mentioned that you
> +  are touching files outside i915 stop and make sure that you have the proper
> +  Acked-by. Specially for drm files an Acked-by from Dave Airlie is required.
>  
>  * Only push patches to `drm-intel-next-queued` branch.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center