[LTP] [PATCH 1/1] doc/maintainer: Add policy for new functionality

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Sat Dec 11 16:19:28 CET 2021


Hi all,

> Hi!
> > Suggested-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> > ---
> >  doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

> > diff --git a/doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt b/doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt
> > index c7bb47810..4e2b267ac 100644
> > --- a/doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt
> > +++ b/doc/maintainer-patch-review-checklist.txt
> > @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ New test should
> >    GPL-2.0-or-later; the licence for test (e.g. GPL-2.0) should not change
> >    unless test is completely rewritten
> >  * Old copyrights should be kept unless test is completely rewritten
> > +* Tests for new functionality in mainline kernel should be merged after final
> > +  release of kernel which contains that functionality (it's not enough when the
> > +  feature gets into rc1, because it can be reverted in later rc if problematic).

> Sounds reasonable to me, but ideally this should be acked by the rest of
> the maintainers.
Sure, this can wait :).

Cc maintainers directly.

Kind regards,
Petr


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