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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 22:31:33 +0530 From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch help? On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 10:07 PM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote: > > 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? > I was hoping that the maintainer could catch it before merging it into his tree. Dates being a trivial thing might slip human eyes, but checkpatch might detect it there. Thanks, Dwaipayan.
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