Re: checkpatch changes for 4.16

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Jan 31 2018 - 18:56:27 EST


On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 10:23 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 02:48:56PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 08:46 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > > Hi Joe,
> > >
> > > Can I please bother you with a maintainer question. I know everyone is
> > > super busy right now, I'm asking for a smidgen of your time instead of
> > > doing it wrong and taking up some of Linus' time since it's merge window
> > > and all that.
> > >
> > > I have the checkpatch set queued ready to do a GIT PULL to Linus. My
> > > concern is that the subject line may not be unique if checkpatch changes
> > > are coming in from various trees this merge window. I have tagged the
> > > pull request with
> >
> > Personally, I think you could let Andrew Morton pick them
> > up as very few patches for checkpatch go in any other way.
>
> ok no worries. I'll leave it until a few rc's are out then send to Andrew.
>
> > What patches are you submitting again?
> >
> > Is it just
> >
> > commit 7b1924a1d930 ("vsprintf: add printk specifier %px")
> >
> > or is there something else?
>
> d94e97bc9ede checkpatch: add sub routine get_stat_real()
> d0e27c47f5b9 checkpatch: add sub routine get_stat_here()
> 986b3b5b7d7a checkpatch: warn for use of %px
> 26c1cf882d79 checkpatch: add check for tag Co-Developed-by
>
> I thought it was odd when you said they could go in through _any_
> tree. Not to worry, it's not urgent.

Stuff that is going to be pulled should at least
marinate in -next for awhile first and not first
be presented as a pull request.