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

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 10:39, Manos Pitsidianakis
<manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 12:34, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 10:11, Manos Pitsidianakis
> > <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Check if a file argument is a cover letter patch produced by
> > > git-format-patch --cover-letter; It is initialized with subject suffix "
> > > *** SUBJECT HERE ***" and body prefix " *** BLURB HERE ***". If they
> > > exist, warn the user.
> >
> > FWIW, as far as I can see from my email archive, this particular
> > mistake has been made by contributors to qemu-devel perhaps
> > half a dozen times at most in the last decade...
> >
> > thanks
> > -- PMM
>
> Peter, searching for `b:"BLURB HERE"` in lore.kernel.org yields about
> 170 results including these patches.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/?q=b%3A%22BLURB+HERE%22

Yes, there's a few more 'blurb here' results than 'subject here'
results, but they're almost always just where the submitter did
provide a proper blurb but then forgot to delete the 'BLURB HERE'
line, rather than where there's no blurb at all.

thanks
-- PMM