Re: [ANNOUNCE] kernel-patch-validator - Tool to validate patches before submission

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 03:54:17AM -0400, Ignacio Peña wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> After getting patches rejected multiple times for common mistakes, I built
> a tool to validate patches before submission. It catches issues that
> frequently lead to rejections.
> 
> Features:
> - 21+ automated checks based on real maintainer feedback
> - Validates format, DCO, changelog placement, dates
> - Integrated checkpatch.pl with enhanced reporting
> - Tools to find first contributions (find-bugs.sh)
> - Patch series validation
> 
> Available at: https://github.com/ipenas-cl/kernel-patch-validator
> 
> Quick usage:
> $ git format-patch -1
> $ validate-patch.sh 0001-your-patch.patch
> 
> Example issues it catches:
> - Future dates (2025 bug from wrong system clock)

Note, it is now 2025, so this check keeps failing :)

Overall, I like the idea, the implementation needs a bit of work, see
the few github issues I opened on it for details found in my testing.

Can you add some of these checks to checkpatch.pl itself?  That would be
the best thing to do in the end.  Having to use different tools makes
things harder to keep in sync and to remember to use at all.

thanks,

greg k-h