Re: [PATCH] kdb: Get rid of broken attempt to print CCVERSION in kdb summary

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:37:49 +0900 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It's pretty benign: Doug will still only get a single email.
> >
> >
> > checkpatch checks for duplicates cc's but I think it assumes that
> > things like
> >
> > Reported-by: fred
> > Tested-by: fred
> >
> > were intentional.
> >
> > It would perhaps be better for checkpatch to special-case the "Cc:
> > fred" tag and report a duplicated Cc: if fred was also mentioned in any
> > other tag.
> 
> Sorry, I do not understand what you mean.
> 
> 
> Douglas did not add any Cc: tag at all
> in his original patch:
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1053953/
> 
> 
> It's you who added the Cc: tags
> (and I am guessing you did it by scripting.)
> 
> Why is this topic related to checkpatch?

Because I regularly check all patches with checkpatch but checkpatch
failed to detect that I had

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
...
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

and I believe that checkpatch could and should have warned about this
situation.