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SubjectRe: checkpatch: support deprecated terms checking
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On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 13:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:54:41 +0200 SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Unfortunately, the inexperienced _do_ in fact run
> > > > > checkpatch on files and submit inappropriate patches.
>
> I don't think I really agree with the "new code only" guideline (where
> did this come from, anyway?). 10 years from now any remaining pre-2020
> terms will look exceedingly archaic and will get converted at some
> point.
>
> Wouldn't be longterm realistic to just bite the bullet now and add these
> conversions to the various todo lists?

I don't think so.

There's no exclusion list for existing uses
written to external specification.

It's just emitting effectively noisy warnings
on things that should not be changed.


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