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Date:   Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:19:58 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kai Wasserbäch <kai@....carbon-project.org>
Cc:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH 0/2] feat: checkpatch: prohibit Buglink: and warn
 about missing Link:

On Mon, 2022-12-05 at 17:02 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-12-05 at 13:14 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Date: Sun,  4 Dec 2022 12:33:37 +0100
> > From: Kai Wasserbäch <kai@....carbon-project.org>
[]
> > - checkpatch implements custum versions of Perl core modules, that might
> >   be an future area for clean-ups? Eg. right off the bat there is a
> >   `uniq` implementation. List::Util (core module since 5.8.0 (5.7.3 to
> >   be pedantic)) has a far better performing version in XS.

> Maybe.  I don't know there are that many generic functions
> that could be used.  You are welcome find some.

uniq isn't used in checkpatch since

commit 52178ce01335d9d76611c3a5198b8778cb9b03f5
Author: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 26 15:08:26 2021 +0530

    checkpatch: add verbose mode
 
and could be removed.