Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM

From: Sedat Dilek
Date: Wed Feb 26 2020 - 08:01:21 EST


On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 1:39 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:26 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:31 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 6:02 AM Nick Desaulniers
> > > <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Added to kbuild documentation. Provides more official info on building
> > > > kernels with Clang and LLVM than our wiki.
> > > >
> > > > Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > Changes V1 -> V2:
> > > > * s/On going/ongoing/
> > > > * add Randy's Suggested-by
> > >
> > >
> > > I do not understand this tag update.
> > >
> > > As far as I saw the review process,
> > > I do not think Randy deserves to have Suggested-by
> > > because he just pointed out a typo (on going -> ongoing) :
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11401189/#23179575
> > >
> > > (or, was there off-line activity I had missed?)
> > >
> >
> > Hi Masahiro,
> >
> > I got some credits from Nick for a review by seeing a typo - not on a
> > review of the code - and H. Peter Anvin asked why.
> >
> > I am not sure what is here the correct credit to give.
> > Depends a "Reviewed-by" and/or "Suggested-by" on a technical review?
>
>
>
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
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> 13) Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by:, Suggested-by: and Fixes:
>
> is a helpful guideline.
>

Thanks for CCing Randy and the pointer to
"Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst" file.

This document [1] is mostly focusing on technical handling.

- Sedat -

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#n584