From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 14:33:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131006213309.GO19510@leaf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381094837.2081.160.camel@joe-AO722>
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 02:27:17PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-10-06 at 14:18 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 11:27:39PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 11:51:48AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 11:43 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > > > Kernel maintainers reject new instances of the GPL boilerplate paragraph
> > > > > directing people to write to the FSF for a copy of the GPL, since the
> > > > > FSF has moved in the past and may do so again.
> []
> > any objections to merging the patch in its current form?
>
> Your own suggestion that this be applied only to
> patches hasn't been implemented.
Given Greg's comment that we want to eliminate the existing instances, I
wanted to make sure implementing that change still makes sense.
I can easily enough make checkpatch emit an ERROR for patches and a WARN
or CHK for existing files, if that's the consensus.
- Josh Triplett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-06 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-05 18:43 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address Josh Triplett
2013-10-05 18:51 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-05 19:03 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 6:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 7:01 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-06 7:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 8:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-06 13:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 13:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-06 19:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 20:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-06 19:19 ` Rob Landley
2013-10-06 21:16 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 21:18 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 21:27 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-06 21:33 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2013-10-06 21:48 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-06 22:23 ` [PATCHv2] " Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 23:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 23:16 ` Joe Perches
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-09-11 9:49 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: check " Antony Pavlov
2014-09-12 5:41 ` Sascha Hauer
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