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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] checkpatch: Do not check git commit description
 style when backport the upstream commit
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
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Date:   Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:51:48 -0800
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On Wed, 2020-11-25 at 11:35 +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> When backport the upstream commit to the internal LTS kernel version,
> we usually use the following description [1] [2]:
> 
> [ Upstream commit cc6528bc9a0c901c83b8220a2e2617f3354d6dd9 ]
> or
> commit c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 upstream.

Internal to what?

If it's your own internal build system, I think you should
keep your own local patch to checkpatch.

I don't see why the kernel version should accept it.

Is this style used by anyone else?