netdev - Re: [PATCH] scripts: checkpatch: steer people away from using file paths

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:01:44 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: krzk@...nel.org, geert@...ux-m68k.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	workflows@...r.kernel.org, mario.limonciello@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: checkpatch: steer people away from using file
 paths

On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 12:52 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:25:09 +0200 Greg KH wrote:
> > I do:
> > 	- git format-patch to generate the patch series.
> > 	- run the generate_cc_list script which creates XXXX.info files
> > 	  (the XXXX being the patch number) that contain the
> > 	  people/lists to cc: on the patch
> > 	- git rebase -i on the patch series and edit the changelog
> > 	  description and paste in the XXXX.info file for that specific
> > 	  patch.
> > 
> > Yeah, it's a lot of manual steps, I should use b4 for it, one of these
> > days...
> 
> Oh, neat! I do a similar thing. Modulo the number of steps:
> 
>   git rebase --exec './ccer.py --inline'
> 
> I was wondering if I was the only one who pastes the Cc: person
> into the patch, because I'd love to teach get_maintainer to do
> the --inline thing, instead of carrying my own wrapper...

Now for that, you'd want checkpatch or yet another script to do it.