Re: [PATCH] SUNDANCE NETWORK DRIVER: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 17:44 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu,  9 Jul 2020 22:49:25 +0200 Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> > Rationale:
> > Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
> > as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
> > 
> > Deterministic algorithm:
> > For each file:
> >   If not .svg:
> >     For each line:
> >       If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
> >         For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
> > 	  If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
> >             If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
> >             return 200 OK and serve the same content:
> >               Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Applied to net-next, but please find a better algorithm for generating
> the subject prefixes. 

Suggestions welcomed for automating patch subject prefixes
for generic treewide conversions by subsystem.

git history doesn't work particularly well for that.