linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Do not check git commit description style when backport the upstream commit

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Message-ID: <a60a7b08ce9dde0452577e4bc556cd6217bbc916.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:22:24 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@...ngson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Do not check git commit description
 style when backport the upstream commit

On Wed, 2020-11-25 at 12:08 +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> On 11/25/2020 11:51 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-11-25 at 11:35 +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> > > When backport the upstream commit to the internal LTS kernel version,
> > > we usually use the following description [1] [2]:
> > > 
> > > [ Upstream commit cc6528bc9a0c901c83b8220a2e2617f3354d6dd9 ]
> > > or
> > > commit c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 upstream.
> > Internal to what?
> > 
> > If it's your own internal build system, I think you should
> > keep your own local patch to checkpatch.
> > 
> > I don't see why the kernel version should accept it.
> > 
> > Is this style used by anyone else?
> 
> AFAIK, this style is only used in the stable tree, for example:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.9.y&id=c68a9ca7ca33f1020cca97e4e935c2154bec37c7
>