linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6] checkpatch: add support to check 'Fixes:' tag format

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Date:   Mon, 4 May 2020 11:45:02 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] checkpatch: add support to check 'Fixes:' tag format

>  v6:
…
>  2: Fix a typo issue, reported by …
>  3: Reword some diagnostics info.

Such small improvements are nice.

>  4: Add support to check and emit sensible diagnostics
>     info for description which spans across more than
>     two lines.

My software concerns are growing also for the preferred dependency management.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=0e698dfa282211e414076f9dc7e83c1c288314fd#n138

>  5: Avoid the word "acrosses", suggested by …

Another bit of collateral evolution.

But it seems that further suggestions and ideas need more efforts
to get the desired software development attention (I hope for a while).
Will the clarification and integration of possibly remaining open issues
continue in constructive ways?

Regards,
Markus