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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Oct 16 2019 - 11:24:03 EST


On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 18:20 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> 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.

? examples please.

checkpatch has a db for misspellings, I supposed another for
acronyms could be added, but how would false positives be avoided?