Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 27/74] checkpatch: allow space in more places before a bracket

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 21/08/2018 20:38, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This is commit 38dca988bb20 ("checkpatch: allow space between colon
> and bracket") upstream, why is that not mentioned anywhere?

Trivially because I used "git commit -c" instead of "git cherry-pick" (I
don't remember exactly why, probably I did the patch quickly and only
later noticed that Linux had already fixed the same thing).  I did
mention Linux commit daebc534ac in the commit message, but not 38dca988bb20.

Paolo

> *Please* mention the upstream commits when back-porting things.
> 
>                  Linus
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:03 AM Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> From: Heinrich Schuchardt <address@hidden>
>>
>> Allow a space between a colon and subsequent opening bracket.  This
>> sequence may occur in inline assembler statements like