Re: [PATCH 0/2] checkpatch: Do appropriate kernel->qemu renaming

[Peter Maydell]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 14:33, Aleksandar Markovic
<aleksandar.qemu.devel@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are several places where 'kernel' is mentioned instead of
> 'qemu' in checkpatch.pl.
>
> This small series corrects this.

So, the thing about this kind of change is that it's implicitly saying "we have
forked checkpatch and will not try to update to newer versions of it from
the kernel tree", because this sort of no-behavioural-change tends to
get in the way of that kind of update by obscuring the delta between
the kernel version and ours. Effectively I think we *have* ended up
with our own fork,
simply because we haven't cared to do that kind of update from the kernel's
version and we've gradually added our own changes to our copy. But it seems
like it's worth discussing the general principle.

thanks
-- PMM