Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the clk tree

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 13:36:53 EST


On Fri, 2019-01-18 at 10:41 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 09:37:26AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Do you have a patch for checkpatch too? Maybe Joe can solve my problem.
> Joe posted a checkpatch diff in another thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/40bfc40958fca6e2cc9b86101153aa0715fac4f7.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/

That proposal has the negative that a Fixes: line
is often after a Signed-off-by: line and the test
does not validate Fixes lines after Signed-off-by:s.

I would still appreciate some external testing of
the proposed patch.