Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: never relocate kernel below lowest acceptable address

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Wed Oct 16 2019 - 11:20:24 EST


On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:18:25PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:21:11PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Was there a section in the patch submission documentation to point out
> > when people send patches with all the possible twists for an acronym?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> > This is giving me constantly gray hairs with TPM patches.
>
> Well, I'm slowly getting tired of repeating the same crap over and over
> again about how important it is to document one's changes and to write
> good commit messages. The most repeated answers I'm simply putting into
> canned reply templates because, well, saying it once or twice is not
> enough anymore. :-\
>
> And yeah, I see your pain. Same here, actually.
>
> In the acronym case, I'd probably add a regex to my patch massaging
> script and convert those typos automatically and be done with it.

Wonder if checkpatch.pl could be extended to know acronyms e.g. have a
db of known acronyms.

/Jarkko