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From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:37:49 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdb: Get rid of broken attempt to print CCVERSION in kdb summary
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Hi Andrew,

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 8:31 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:06:23 +0900 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:55 AM Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > If you drop into kdb and type "summary", it prints out a line that
> > > says this:
> > >
> > >   ccversion  CCVERSION
> > >
> > > ...and I don't mean that it actually prints out the version of the C
> > > compiler.  It literally prints out the string "CCVERSION".
> > >
> > > The version of the C Compiler is already printed at boot up and it
> > > doesn't seem useful to replicate this in kdb.  Let's just delete it.
> > > We can also delete the bit of the Makefile that called the C compiler
> > > in an attempt to pass this into kdb.  This will remove one extra call
> > > to the C compiler at Makefile parse time and (very slightly) speed up
> > > builds.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> >
> >
> > I know you add lots of Cc: lines
> > when you pick up patches, but I think
> > your script can be improved.
> >
> > You added "Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>",
> > but Douglas is the author.
> > I think the author should be excluded from Cc.
>
> Whoops.
>
> It's pretty benign: Doug will still only get a single email.
>
>
> checkpatch checks for duplicates cc's but I think it assumes that
> things like
>
> Reported-by: fred
> Tested-by: fred
>
> were intentional.
>
> It would perhaps be better for checkpatch to special-case the "Cc:
> fred" tag and report a duplicated Cc: if fred was also mentioned in any
> other tag.

Sorry, I do not understand what you mean.


Douglas did not add any Cc: tag at all
in his original patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1053953/


It's you who added the Cc: tags
(and I am guessing you did it by scripting.)

Why is this topic related to checkpatch?

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada