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Date:   Mon, 1 Feb 2021 17:37:23 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
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        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch
 help?
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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?

thanks,

greg k-h