Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch help?

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 5:37 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 10:04:01PM +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > Hi,
> > on linux-next,
> > $ git log --pretty=format:"%h%x09%ad" | awk '$6>2021 {print $1}'
> > gives:
> > 4a2d78822fdf
> > 12ca45fea91c
> > 09f2724a786f
> >
> > These are patches from the year 2085, 2037 and 2030 respectively.
> >
> > Would a checkpatch rule be helpful for these or are they too
> > isolated to waste runtime on?
>
> Dates come from your email client, not the patch itself, how is
> checkpatch going to catch this?
>

Dwaipayan, there are two ways:
- We build a bot listening to mailing lists and check. I like that
implementation idea for various other checks.
- Stephen Rothwell could include this as a check on linux-next and
inform the git author and committer.

I am wondering though if that is worth the effort, three instances of
a wrong date among 1M commits seems to be very seldom and the harm of
that mistake is quite small as well.

Lukas