Re: [PATCH 5.10 0/2] checkpatch: fix repeated word annoyance

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 06:37:43PM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 07:23:28PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> This is a minor annoyance when working directly with the v5.10 stable
> tree and doing e.g ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -g HEAD. I suppose it makes
> sense to always prefer the top-of-tree scripts. However, this could be
> inconvenient for some scenarios were master needs to be pulled
> separately.

It makes more sense to use the newer version of the tool, especially as
you are probably having it review backports of newer patches, which
obviously, should follow the newer checkpatch settings, not the older
ones :)

thanks,

greg k-h