Re: checkpatch changes for 4.16

From: Tobin C. Harding
Date: Wed Jan 31 2018 - 18:24:07 EST


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.

Thanks for the responce.

Tobin