[PATCH] devtools: allow patch to multiple groups for the same driver
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Sep 14 19:08:34 CEST 2026
On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:12:40 +0300
Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com> wrote:
> The PMD's source code resides in the ./drivers folder of the
> DPDK project and split into the several groups depending on the
> PMD class (common, net, regex, etc.).
>
> For some vendors the drivers of different classes operate over
> the same hardware, for example Nvidia PMDs operate over ConnectX
> NIC series. It often happens the same minor fixes should be applied
> to the multiple drivers of the same vendor in the different classes.
>
> The check-git-log.sh script checks the consistence of patch
> affected files and patch commit message headline and prevents
> updating multiple drivers in single commit.
>
> This patch mitigates this strict check and allows to update
> multiple drivers in different classes for the single vendor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
> ---
This patch has sat for years now with no response.
As a maintainer, using check-git-log is just advice and it doesn't need to be exact.
So marking this as Rejected due to lack of ack's
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