Re: [PATCH net-next 14/15] net: dsa: sja1105: replace mdiobus-pcs with xpcs-plat driver

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 05:23:48PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 06:17:48PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 08:11:12AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:25:22 +0200 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > > I think it's due to the fact that the "contest" checks are fundamentally
> > > > so slow, that they can't be run on individual patch sets, and are run on
> > > > batches of patch sets merged into a single branch (of which there seem
> > > > to be 8 per day).
> > > 
> > > Correct, looking at the logs AFAICT coccicheck takes 25min on a
> > > relatively beefy machine, and we only run it on path that were actually
> > > modified by pending changes. We get 100+ patches a day, and 40+ series,
> > > and coccicheck fails relatively rarely. So on the NIPA side it's not
> > > worth it.
> > > 
> > > But, we can certainly integrate it into ingest_mdir.
> > > 
> > > FTR make htmldocs and of course selftests are also not executed by
> > > ingest_mdir.
> > 
> > Btw, do you do `make W=1` while having CONFIG_WERROR=y?
> > And if so, do you also compile with clang?
> 
> If you look at any patch in patchwork, e.g.
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/E1vLgSZ-0000000FMrW-0cEu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> it gives a list of the tests performed. In answer to your questions:
> 
> netdev/build_clang 	success 	Errors and warnings before: 1 this patch: 1
> 
> So yes, building with clang is tested.
> 
> I can say that stuff such as unused const variables gets found by
> nipa, via -Wunused-const-variable, which as I understand it is a
> W=1 thing.
> 
> I suspect CONFIG_WERROR=y isn't used (I don't know) as that would
> stop the build on warnings, whereas what is done instead is that
> the output of the build is analysed, and the number of warnings
> counted and reported in patchwork. Note that the "build" stuff
> reports number of errors/warnings before and after the patch.
> 
> Hope this answers your question.

Pretty much, thanks!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko