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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links
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Hi Joe,

Thank you for this review.

On 31/03/2023 00:43, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.

When we first saw the new warnings checkpatch.pl was producing on a pre
Linux 6.3-rc1, we thought it was an issue with checkpatch: the "Closes:"
tag with a URL has been used for years without any complaints from
checkpatch and people as far as I know. At some point we had to stop
using it to please checkpatch and that's why we thought something had to
be fixed: we initially [1] thought the "Closes:" tag case had been
forgotten when the two mentioned commits had been created.

But I'm fine to see these "Fixes" tags removed, I understand the
"Closes:" tags were tolerated before but just not documented. Do I send
a v4 without these two "Fixes" tags? It means only the v6.3 would not
accept "Closes:" tags but we can work around that.

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/a27480c5-c3d4-b302-285e-323df0349b8f@tessares.net/

Cheers,
Matt
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