On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 08:35:49AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 17:12 +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > checkpatch: fix the usage of capture group ( ... ) > > > > to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > I think it's slightly silly to backport patches to checkpatch. > > A number of tools/systems use the version of checkpatch in the kernel version for a variety of things. I know one very-large-public-facing kernel gerrit instance that does just this, and it runs the in-tree version for all patches submitted. So fixing bugs in it is always nice and "free" :) thanks, greg k-h
