Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:43:12 -0300 | Subject | Re: Automatically update drm CI dependencies? | From | Helen Koike <> |
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Hi,
On 14/12/2023 06:38, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm referring to dependabot PR on torvalds.git GitHub mirror [1]. I know > that PRs submitted there are not accepted (the repo is essentially read-only > mirror), hence this mail question. > > In summary, dependabot submitted automated PR that bumps package versions > in `drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/requirements.txt`. In this case, pip was > upgraded to 23.3. > > From my experience, such automated PRs can pollute commit history (in > some GitHub projects these PR kind can contribute up to half of total > commits since the beginning of project). And in some projects, dependabot > PRs are automatically merged without any maintainer intervention. > > Does such PRs (when submitted to LKML these will be patches) make sense > for DRM subsystem? > > Thanks. > > [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/807 >
imho I rather not having this automated patches, but I would like to hear the opinions from others.
Thanks Helen
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