When testing a series of commits that also includes changes to the Linux
tools directory, it is useless to test the changes in tools as they may
not affect the kernel itself. Doing tests on the kernel for changes that
do not affect the kernel is a waste of time.
Add a PATCHCHECK_SKIP that takes a series of shas that will be skipped
while doing the individual commit tests.
For example, the runtime verification may have a series of commits like:
$ git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline fac5493251a6~1..HEAD
3d3800b4f7 rv: Remove rv_reactor's reference counter
3d3c376118 rv: Merge struct rv_reactor_def into struct rv_reactor
24cbfe18d5 rv: Merge struct rv_monitor_def into struct rv_monitor
b0c08dd534 rv: Remove unused field in struct rv_monitor_def
58d5f0d437 (debiantesting-x86-64/trace/rv/core) rv: Return init error when registering monitors
560473f2e2 verification/rvgen: Organise Kconfig entries for nested monitors
9efcf59082 tools/dot2c: Fix generated files going over 100 column limit
1160ccaf77 tools/rv: Stop gracefully also on SIGTERM
f60227f344 tools/rv: Do not skip idle in trace
f3735df628 verification/rvgen: Do not generate unused variables
6fb37c2a27 verification/rvgen: Generate each variable definition only once
8cfcf9b0e9 verification/rvgen: Support the 'next' operator
fac5493251 rv: Allow to configure the number of per-task monitor
Where the first commit touches the kernel followed by a series of commits
that do not, and ends with commits that do. Instead of having to add
multiple patchcheck tests to handle the gaps, just include the commits
that should not be tested:
$ git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline fac5493251a6~1..HEAD |
grep -e verification -e tools/ | cut -d' ' -f1 |
while read a ; do echo -n "$a "; done
560473f2e29efcf590821160ccaf77f60227f344f3735df6286fb37c2a278cfcf9b0e9
Then set PATCHCHECK_SKIP to that, and those commits will be skipped.
PATCHCHECK_SKIP = 560473f2e29efcf590821160ccaf77f60227f344f3735df6286fb37c2a278cfcf9b0e9
Cc: John 'Warthog9' Hawley <warthog9@kernel.org>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250725112153.1dd06b84@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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