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Mogalapalli wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> On 26/03/25 06:47, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 06:32:19AM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote: >>>> Hi Larry, >>>> >>>> >>>> On 26/03/25 05:14, Larry Bassel wrote: >>>>> From: Xie Yongji >>>>> >>>>> commit ad993a95c508 ("virtio-net: Add validation for used length") >>>>> >>>> >>>> I understand checkpatch.pl warned you, but for stable patches this should >>>> still be [ Upstream commit ad993a95c508417acdeb15244109e009e50d8758 ] >>>> >>>> Stable maintainers, do you think it is good idea to tweak checkpatch.pl to >>>> detect these are backports(with help of Upstream commit, commit .. upstream, >>>> or cherrypicked from lines ?) and it shouldn't warn about long SHA ? >>> >>> Nope! Why would you ever run checkpatch on a patch that is already >>> upstream? >>> >> >> Ah right, not in this case but it might help when the backport is a bit >> different from the upstream patch(i.e after conflict resolution if the line >> in code exceeds 80 chars) -- checkpatch.pl might help us do it in the right >> way ? (only in a case where there are changes between current upstream code >> and the stable branch where we are backporting to) > > Then run checkpatch like normal to catch that if you feel you need it, > you know to ignore foolish warnings from checkpatch, that's just normal. > Agree, that's the best approach! Thank you. Regards, Harshit > People doing backports better be experienced kernel developers as this > is NOT a task for newbies for obvious reasons. Which is maybe why no > one has ever brought this up in the past 15+ years we have had stable > kernels? :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h