On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 07:23:28PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 06:15:02PM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote: > > The checkpatch.pl in v5.10.y still triggers lots of false positives for > > REPEATED_WORD warnings, particularly for commit logs. Can we please > > backport these two fixes? > > Why is older versions of checkpatch being used? Why not always use the > latest version, much like perf is handled? > > No new code should be written against older kernels, so who is using > this old tool? This is a minor annoyance when working directly with the v5.10 stable tree and doing e.g ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -g HEAD. I suppose it makes sense to always prefer the top-of-tree scripts. However, this could be inconvenient for some scenarios were master needs to be pulled separately. -- Carlos Llamas
