On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 13:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:54:41 +0200 SeongJae Park <sjp...@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.
