On Wed, 2021-11-17 at 21:28 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:46:20AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On 2021-11-17 09:08, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 6:05 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > What do you think checkpatch is supposed to find? > > > > > To me AMS should precede AXI and not the other way around. Agree? > > > > Sure but checkpatch just looks at patches and doesn't inspect the patched > > file, apply the patch then look at the result. The patch itself looks fine. > > I see, checkpatch simply doesn't have such functionality and maintainers should > ask people to rung parse-maintainers.pl from time to time… I asked Linus to do that before every -rc1 and he demurred. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjq68jF+fcSJYpRT3yS+=oOxaEFtYVmSjKb0RLbo7+JWw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/