Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/process: Add Researcher Guidelines

[Jonathan Corbet]

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 01:34:34PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:14:18AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> > +  x86_64 and arm64 defconfig builds with CONFIG_FOO_BAR=y using GCC
>> > +  11.2 show no new warnings, and LeakMagic no longer warns about this
>> > +  code path. As we don't have a FooBar device to test with, no runtime
>> > +  testing was able to be performed.
>> 
>> People have started sending commit messages in this exact template and
>> normally I would ask them resend with the meta commentary from this
>> paragraph below the --- cut off line.
>> 
>> Do we really want this "Compile tested only" stuff in the permanent git
>> log?
>
> +1 here, can we rather avoid flooding commit messages with the meta, that
> anyways is available in lore.kernel.org archives?

Perhaps somebody should send a patch correcting the wording to how they
think it should be...?

Thanks,

jon