From 0ea09cbf8350b70ad44d67a1dcb379008a356034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 10:05:33 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] docs: netdev: add a note on selftest posting We haven't had much discussion on the list about this, but a handful of people have been confused about rules on posting selftests for fixes, lately. I tend to post fixes with their respective selftests in the same series. There are tradeoffs around size of the net tree and conflicts but so far it hasn't been a major issue. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Cong Wang Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306180533.1864075-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni --- Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst index e497729525d5..1ac62dc3a66f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst @@ -311,6 +311,14 @@ to the mailing list, e.g.:: Posting as one thread is discouraged because it confuses patchwork (as of patchwork 2.2.2). +Co-posting selftests +-------------------- + +Selftests should be part of the same series as the code changes. +Specifically for fixes both code change and related test should go into +the same tree (the tests may lack a Fixes tag, which is expected). +Mixing code changes and test changes in a single commit is discouraged. + Preparing changes ----------------- -- 2.49.0