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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Self nomination - Sasha Levin
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:46:51AM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote:
>    - Making checkpatch check for (some) of the stable kernel rules
>    (and possibly recommend adding the stable@ tag in certain cases?).
>      - Depends on: making checkpatch sane again.

This sounds interesting.  What do you mean by "sane"?  "sane" as in
rewriting it so that someone who isn't a perl master can modify it?  Or
"sane" as in "don't be so pedantic about things that don't matter"?

>    - Improving tagging for stable. The "version tag" option is broken
>    and the "Fixes:" tag is always preferable, how do we get people to
>    use that more often? (script it somehow?
>    scripts/find-version-it-fixes ?).

Oh a script like that would be nice, but how would that work in reality?

thanks,

greg k-h