linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/process

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Message-ID: <2c60a30eb1fd3616fccd496e76d3d1cc54afc732.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:42:38 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones:
 Documentation/process

On Sun, 2020-06-21 at 16:30 +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> Am 21.06.20 um 15:46 schrieb Miguel Ojeda:
> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 3:37 PM Alexander A. Klimov
> > <grandmaster@...klimov.de> wrote:
[]
> > >              Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
[]
> W/o a 
> such central "rule on how to HTTPSify links"

Maybe:
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 524df88f9364..4e49187a6137 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3115,6 +3115,12 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
+# check for URLs using old http:// links, suggest https:
+		if ($rawline =~ m{^\+.*\bhttp://}) {
+			WARN("HTTP_URL",
+			     "Prefer URLs using https: over http:\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # discourage the use of boolean for type definition attributes of Kconfig options
 		if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ &&
 		    $line =~ /^\+\s*\bboolean\b/) {