linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the clk tree

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Message-ID: <537b4ea9870fbb93e26f83e7a06ff2091db39ec5.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:36:45 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Mike Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the clk tree

On Fri, 2019-01-18 at 10:41 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 09:37:26AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Do you have a patch for checkpatch too? Maybe Joe can solve my problem.
> Joe posted a checkpatch diff in another thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/40bfc40958fca6e2cc9b86101153aa0715fac4f7.camel@perches.com/

That proposal has the negative that a Fixes: line
is often after a Signed-off-by: line and the test
does not validate Fixes lines after Signed-off-by:s.

I would still appreciate some external testing of
the proposed patch.