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

[Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 08:15:01AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> 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 :)

Yes, that is the use-case we have. We'll switch to the latest version so
please ignore these patches then. Sorry for the noise.

--
Carlos Llamas