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From: Michal Kalderon <mkalderon@marvell.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	"leon@kernel.org" <leon@kernel.org>,
	"apw@canonical.com" <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add test for empty line after Fixes statement
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 13:16:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MN2PR18MB318292E37F3AB9383D9FBE0FA1060@MN2PR18MB3182.namprd18.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed26df86d7d0e12263404842895460b1611def61.camel@perches.com>

> From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 3:57 PM
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add test for empty line after Fixes
> statement
> 
> External Email
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 15:42 +0300, Michal Kalderon wrote:
> > Check that there is no empty line after a fixes statement
> 
> why?
> 
This comment is given a lot on the netdev and rdma mailing lists when patches are submitted with
an empty line between Fixes: tag and SOB tags. Since "Fixes:" is just another tag and should be kept
together with the other ones.
thanks,
Michal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-20 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-20 12:42 [PATCH] checkpatch: add test for empty line after Fixes statement Michal Kalderon
2019-05-20 12:56 ` Joe Perches
2019-05-20 13:16   ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-05-20 13:16   ` Michal Kalderon [this message]
2019-05-20 13:34     ` [EXT] " Joe Perches
2019-05-20 13:52       ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-05-21  0:07         ` Joe Perches

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