Re: [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Do not check git commit description style when backport the upstream commit

From: Tiezhu Yang
Date: Tue Nov 24 2020 - 23:08:13 EST


On 11/25/2020 11:51 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
On Wed, 2020-11-25 at 11:35 +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
When backport the upstream commit to the internal LTS kernel version,
we usually use the following description [1] [2]:

[ Upstream commit cc6528bc9a0c901c83b8220a2e2617f3354d6dd9 ]
or
commit c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 upstream.
Internal to what?

If it's your own internal build system, I think you should
keep your own local patch to checkpatch.

I don't see why the kernel version should accept it.

Is this style used by anyone else?

AFAIK, this style is only used in the stable tree, for example:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.9.y&id=c68a9ca7ca33f1020cca97e4e935c2154bec37c7