The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: warn only for URLs to non-lore archives has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is checkpatch-add-warning-for-non-lore-mailing-list-urls-fix.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/checkpatch-add-warning-for-non-lore-mailing-list-urls-fix.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: warn only for URLs to non-lore archives Date: Mon Nov 14 16:33:12 2022 -0600 Previously we warned for anything that contained the archive hostname, but some email addresses also contain those hostnames, and we'd rather not warn about those. Only warn if we see "http" before the archive hostname. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114224315.GA939630@bhelgaas Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-warning-for-non-lore-mailing-list-urls-fix +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3336,7 +3336,7 @@ sub process { } # Check for mailing list archives other than lore.kernel.org - if ($rawline =~ m{\b$obsolete_archives}) { + if ($rawline =~ m{http.*\b$obsolete_archives}) { WARN("PREFER_LORE_ARCHIVE", "Use lore.kernel.org archive links when possible - see https://lore.kernel.org/lists.html\n" . $herecurr); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-add-warning-for-non-lore-mailing-list-urls.patch checkpatch-add-warning-for-non-lore-mailing-list-urls-fix.patch ia64-remove-unused-__slow_down_io-and-slow_down_io-definitions.patch