Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch help?

[Dwaipayan Ray]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 10:07 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 10:04:01PM +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > Hi,
> > on linux-next,
> > $ git log --pretty=format:"%h%x09%ad" | awk '$6>2021 {print $1}'
> > gives:
> > 4a2d78822fdf
> > 12ca45fea91c
> > 09f2724a786f
> >
> > These are patches from the year 2085, 2037 and 2030 respectively.
> >
> > Would a checkpatch rule be helpful for these or are they too
> > isolated to waste runtime on?
>
> Dates come from your email client, not the patch itself, how is
> checkpatch going to catch this?
>

I was hoping that the maintainer could catch it before merging it
into his tree. Dates being a trivial thing might slip human eyes,
but checkpatch might detect it there.

Thanks,
Dwaipayan.