Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 20/22] tools arch: Sync arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S with the kernel | Date | Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:18:09 +0000 |
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>> If we are going to have all these copies of kernel files below >> "tools/...", perhaps checkpatch could warn people touching one >> that the other needs the same update? > > How would checkpatch know tools hasn't already updated the other?
If checkpatch had a list of all the tools copies, it could warn if a patch touched a file without touching the copy.
Not completely ideal because people might update the two files in separate patches in a series (in which case they would see warnings from both patches).
Also means that checkpatch needs the list of copied files ... not sure how often that changes.
-Tony
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