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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch help?
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 17:37:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBguQ/dENrfvtptJ@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABJPP5AxB8-kafFEpsMydg8eMx8bH5ooT5g7r0fKWV2T2Hjtng@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 10:04:01PM +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> Hi,
> on linux-next,
> $ git log --pretty=format:"%h%x09%ad" | awk '$6>2021 {print $1}'
> gives:
> 4a2d78822fdf
> 12ca45fea91c
> 09f2724a786f
> 
> These are patches from the year 2085, 2037 and 2030 respectively.
> 
> Would a checkpatch rule be helpful for these or are they too
> isolated to waste runtime on?

Dates come from your email client, not the patch itself, how is
checkpatch going to catch this?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-01 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-01 16:34 Patches from the future - can checkpatch help? Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-01 16:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-02-01 16:50   ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] " Lukas Bulwahn
2021-02-01 17:11     ` Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-02 12:48       ` Joe Perches
2021-02-02 14:54         ` Philip Li
2021-02-01 17:59     ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-01 17:01   ` Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-02 11:57     ` Greg KH

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