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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Levin, Alexander" <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
	<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Self nomination - Sasha Levin
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:26:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160826112635.GA27627@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160826044651.GA25341@sasha-lappy>

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:46:51AM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote:
>    - Making checkpatch check for (some) of the stable kernel rules
>    (and possibly recommend adding the stable@ tag in certain cases?).
>      - Depends on: making checkpatch sane again.

This sounds interesting.  What do you mean by "sane"?  "sane" as in
rewriting it so that someone who isn't a perl master can modify it?  Or
"sane" as in "don't be so pedantic about things that don't matter"?

>    - Improving tagging for stable. The "version tag" option is broken
>    and the "Fixes:" tag is always preferable, how do we get people to
>    use that more often? (script it somehow?
>    scripts/find-version-it-fixes ?).

Oh a script like that would be nice, but how would that work in reality?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-26 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-26  4:46 [Ksummit-discuss] Self nomination - Sasha Levin Levin, Alexander
2016-08-26 11:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-08-26 11:42   ` James Hogan
2016-08-26 11:50     ` James Hogan
2016-08-26 12:27       ` Jani Nikula
2016-08-26 12:39         ` James Hogan
2016-08-26 11:56     ` Greg KH
2016-08-26 12:17       ` James Hogan
2016-08-26 13:44       ` Levin, Alexander
2016-08-26 11:48   ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-26 11:55   ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-26 12:11     ` Greg KH
2016-08-26 13:51       ` Levin, Alexander
2016-08-26 13:55         ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-26 18:52           ` Levin, Alexander
2016-08-26 19:59             ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-26 12:08   ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-26 18:55     ` Levin, Alexander
2016-08-26 13:39   ` Levin, Alexander

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