Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] Add TRACKING.IMPORTS to xen.git to more easily manage imported files that need to be kept in sync with an upstream

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>]

>>> On 24.05.19 at 19:44, <lars.kurth@citrix.com> wrote:
> Following the recent discussion, we had on IRC and the action I had in 
> the March community call, this file provides a file format that 
> enables writing an automated test to check whether files are out of sync. 
> 
> An example, what file content may look like is embedded below
> repo: linux-torvalds git 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 
> file: xen/drivers/passthrough/arm/smmu.c linux-torvalds 
> linux/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c b77cf11f094136
> 
> Once the file format is agree, I will write a test or script.
> 
> I also need some more correct test data, aka entries in the file from
> committers looking after the following files
> [Jan]
> xen/arch/x86/cpu/mwait-idle.c 
> [Stefano, Julien - this has to be finalized]
> xen/drivers/passthrough/arm/smmu.c
> xen/arch/arm/vgic/*
> xen/include/asm-arm/div64.h
> xen/drivers/char/meson-uart.c
> xen/arch/arm/arm32/lib/*
> xen/arch/arm/arm64/lib/*
> xen/arch/arm/arm64/cache.S
> xen/arch/arm/arm64/bpi.S
> xen/include/asm-arm/system.h
> xen/arch/arm/arm64/insn.c
> [Others?]
> xen/common/rbtree.c
> 
> Note that in some cases Linux has diverged and some Linux files have disappeared. 
> Julien also raised the point, that in some cases only a subset of code from 
> Linux Xen files was applied or that only some functions get moved across to 
> Xen.
> 
> I believe that is entirely OK. The workflow would be in most cases that:
> - We use a Linux (source) commit as a benchmark and record the commit ID
> - If there is a change in Linux the test will fail
> - The committer looks at the diff and either
>   - Decides to ignore it and bumps the commit ID in this file
>   - Decides the change is needed, integrates it into Xen and then 
>     bumps the commit ID in this file

With this ...

> Changes since v1
> * Require a colon after repo:, file:, ... keywords
> * Replace manual:|auto: with file: as there auto: use-case was invalid
> * Added more verbose description of format
> 
> Changes since v2
> * Changed some formatting
> * Removed examples
> * Removed references to https

... move past the first --- separator ...

> Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>



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