Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/checkpatch.pl: check for placeholders in cover letter patches

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 15:11, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> I suspect the problem is that checkpatch.pl is an import from the Linux
> source tree which has since had syncs with its upstream as well as a
> slew of QEMU specific patches. If we don't care about tracking upstream
> anymore we could bite the bullet and fix indentation going forward.

I had a look at trying to update to be based on a newer
version of the Linux checkpatch some years ago, but it turned
out to not be a trivial thing to do, and we've only diverged
further since then. (Which is unfortunate, because I imagine
there have been bugfixes to the perl script's handling of
parsing fragments of C code which we'd like.)

-- PMM