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author | Kai Wasserbäch <[email protected]> | 2023-01-20 13:35:18 +0100 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <[email protected]> | 2023-02-02 22:50:05 -0800 |
commit | 76f381bb77a0164267d059dd17112605242b2c56 (patch) | |
tree | b1330db4a33d22da464a6b05004891ce86f97872 /tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_autoload.c | |
parent | 030c6ff6498881ac842c7f6da5eec181202b29f4 (diff) |
checkpatch: warn when unknown tags are used for links
Patch series "checkpatch.pl: warn about discouraged tags and missing Link:
tags", v4.
The first two changes make checkpatch.pl check for a few mistakes wrt to
links to bug reports Linus recently complained about a few times.
Avoiding those is also important for my regression tracking efforts a lot,
as the automated tracking performed by regzbot relies on the proper usage
of the Link: tag.
The third patch fixes a few small oddities noticed in existing code during
review of the two changes.
This patch (of 3):
Issue a warning when encountering URLs behind unknown tags, as Linus
recently stated ```please stop making up random tags that make no sense.
Just use "Link:"```[1]. That statement was triggered by an use of
'BugLink', but that's not the only tag people invented:
$ git log -100000 --no-merges --format=email -P \
--grep='^\w+:[ ]*http' | grep -Poh '^\w+:[ ]*http' | \
sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 20
103958 Link: http
418 BugLink: http
372 Patchwork: http
280 Closes: http
224 Bug: http
123 References: http
84 Bugzilla: http
61 URL: http
42 v1: http
38 Datasheet: http
20 v2: http
9 Ref: http
9 Fixes: http
9 Buglink: http
8 v3: http
8 Reference: http
7 See: http
6 1: http
5 link: http
3 Link:http
Some of these non-standard tags make it harder for external tools that
rely on use of proper tags. One of those tools is the regression tracking
bot 'regzbot', which looks out for "Link:" tags pointing to reports of
tracked regressions.
The initial idea was to use a disallow list to raise an error when
encountering known unwanted tags like BugLink:; during review it was
requested to use a list of allowed tags instead[2].
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgs38ZrfPvy=nOwVkVzjpM3VFU1zobP37Fwd_h9iAD5JQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3b036087d80b8c0e07a46a1dbaaf4ad0d018f8d5.1674217480.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Kai Wasserbäch <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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