Am Do., 22. Apr. 2021 um 22:58 Uhr schrieb Peter Stuge <
peter@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?
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
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