Am Do., 22. Apr. 2021 um 22:58 Uhr schrieb Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se>:
> Patrick Georgi via coreboot wrote: > > tree-wide changes > .. > > there may be other approaches on how to make development easier > > I'm a big fan of semantic patching as provided by coccinelle and used > heavily in Linux kernel development. > > Perhaps one way to make lives easier is to require tree-wide changes > to be the result of an spatch, which can then be applied downstream too? > I proposed that in https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/52576 already because I'm also a fan of this idea. That said, both in the meeting and in Nico's sibling comment there have been concerns on putting additional burden on developers (although, personally, I'd rather review a CL that is created by a tool + a simple rule set than a tree-wide refactoring made by hand...) Patrick -- Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891, Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado
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