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SubjectRe: checkpatch: support deprecated terms checking
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On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 15:02 +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I see that this patch went into next and is already inciting people to
> do wrong things [1]. Can you please fix it to require '--subjective'
> switch or otherwise mark it clearly as suggestion-only?
>
> The coding-style as in Linus' master says about *NEW* uses of the words
> listed (those introductions I expect to be actually rare) and not about
> existing use in the code or industry. Making a noise about all uses
> found surely will generate a lot more irrelevant patches.
>
> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-tegra/msg51849.html

I was never a big fan of this change.

Andrew, can you revert this please?


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