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On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 11:07 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> > So additionally, I'd suggest:
> > 1. Instrument checkpatch.pl and make it err or warn on timestamps.
> 
> This is patch 34/34 in this series: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/5/198

Yeah, great, did not notice, thanks!

> > 2. Probably instrument linux-next to rise a warning when people break
> >    this.
> 
> I'm not sure if Stephen has that much spare time, and I don't think it
> is necessary. I think the checkpatch check is sufficient and I'll check
> myself occasionally.

Yes, that's fine, I just wanted to speak this out - there is a
probability that someone gets excited and creates some instrumentation
to kbuild to automatically detect bad things and then Stephen could
easily use that.

WRT "not necessary" - well, I think it is always better to cut bad
things before they are merged, rather than afterwards.

But anyway, let's forget about this.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)