From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9245F67E94 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="uWkrr++r" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C2F08C433C8; Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:23:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1702578221; bh=iV7qUVHvKZu/hWCXWoq8D8wdTApeMolIft6Aw07MxbE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=uWkrr++rlhOBrb2KsOwuXb5jcR3xbaPD2KvA90PtPKBbYvpIkcKvgGBAQeK0Ptw8x rGeYN6Kywbj9CZpr5zBBNtgU6vnadwTyNMxbqbMHDaEDQCG6GtlSk8ytTkpfxLQobe CEhRGcnJTKvbjyUKzLhB4IkUa7RybANmKGqNK9NU= Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:23:28 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Carlos Llamas Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 0/2] checkpatch: fix repeated word annoyance Message-ID: <2023121442-cold-scraggly-f19b@gregkh> References: <20231214181505.2780546-1-cmllamas@google.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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