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

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 08:23:56AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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?

TPM should be always TPM, e.g. not tpm. EFI should be always, e.g.
not efi.

/Jarkko



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