Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/18] net/smc: implement virtual ISM extension and loopback-ism

[Wen Gu]

On 2023/9/29 21:31, Alexandra Winter wrote:
> On 28.09.23 19:29, Wen Gu wrote:
> > On 2023/9/28 16:56, Alexandra Winter wrote:
> > > On 27.09.23 17:16, Alexandra Winter wrote:
> > > > Hello Wen Gu,
> > > >
> > > > I applied and built your patches and noticed some things that you may want to consider in the next version:
> > >
> > >
> > > FYI, patchwork basically complains about many the same issues:
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=787037&state=*
> > >
> > > In general you should run those check BEFORE you send the patches and not rely on patchwork.
> > Thank you Sandy. I seem to have not seen the specific content of these checks. May I ask how to
> > run those patchwork check locally? So that I can make sure everything is ok before send them.
>
> Citing from Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst :
>
> "patchwork checks
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Checks in patchwork are mostly simple wrappers around existing kernel
> scripts, the sources are available at:
>
> https://github.com/kuba-moo/nipa/tree/master/tests
>
> **Do not** post your patches just to run them through the checks.
> You must ensure that your patches are ready by testing them locally
> before posting to the mailing list. The patchwork build bot instance
> gets overloaded very easily and netdev@vger really doesn't need more
> traffic if we can help it."
>
> HTH

Thank you! Sandy.