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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:43:08 -0700
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On Thu, 2023-03-30 at 20:13 +0200, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
> As a follow-up of a previous patch modifying the documentation to
> allow using the "Closes:" tag, checkpatch.pl is updated accordingly.
> 
> checkpatch.pl now no longer complain when the "Closes:" tag is used by
> itself or after the "Reported-by:" tag.
> 
> Fixes: 76f381bb77a0 ("checkpatch: warn when unknown tags are used for links")
> Fixes: d7f1d71e5ef6 ("checkpatch: warn when Reported-by: is not followed by Link:")

I don't think this _fixes_ anything.
I believe it's merely a new capability.

> Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/373
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
> ---
> v3:
>  - split into 2 patches: the previous one adds a list with all the
>    "link" tags. This one only allows the "Closes" tag. (Joe Perches)
>  - "Closes" is no longer printed between parenthesis. (Thorsten
>    Leemhuis)
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 9d092ff4fc16..ca58c734ff22 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ our $signature_tags = qr{(?xi:
>  	Cc:
>  )};
>  
> -our @link_tags = qw(Link);
> +our @link_tags = qw(Link Closes);
>  
>  #Create a search and print patterns for all these strings to be used directly below
>  our $link_tags_search = "";
>