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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 0/2] checkpatch: fix repeated word annoyance
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:23:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023121442-cold-scraggly-f19b@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231214181505.2780546-1-cmllamas@google.com>

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 06:15:02PM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote:
> The checkpatch.pl in v5.10.y still triggers lots of false positives for
> REPEATED_WORD warnings, particularly for commit logs. Can we please
> backport these two fixes?

Why is older versions of checkpatch being used?  Why not always use the
latest version, much like perf is handled?

No new code should be written against older kernels, so who is using
this old tool?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-14 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-14 18:15 [PATCH 5.10 0/2] checkpatch: fix repeated word annoyance Carlos Llamas
2023-12-14 18:15 ` [PATCH 5.10 1/2] checkpatch: add new exception to repeated word check Carlos Llamas
2023-12-14 18:31   ` Joe Perches
2023-12-14 18:52     ` Carlos Llamas
2023-12-14 18:15 ` [PATCH 5.10 2/2] checkpatch: fix false positives in REPEATED_WORD warning Carlos Llamas
2023-12-14 18:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-12-14 18:37   ` [PATCH 5.10 0/2] checkpatch: fix repeated word annoyance Carlos Llamas
2023-12-15  7:15     ` Greg KH
2023-12-15 16:46       ` Carlos Llamas

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