Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/checkpatch.pl: check for placeholders in cover letter patches

[Manos Pitsidianakis]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 12:34, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 10:11, Manos Pitsidianakis
> <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Check if a file argument is a cover letter patch produced by
> > git-format-patch --cover-letter; It is initialized with subject suffix "
> > *** SUBJECT HERE ***" and body prefix " *** BLURB HERE ***". If they
> > exist, warn the user.
>
> FWIW, as far as I can see from my email archive, this particular
> mistake has been made by contributors to qemu-devel perhaps
> half a dozen times at most in the last decade...
>
> thanks
> -- PMM

Peter, searching for `b:"BLURB HERE"` in lore.kernel.org yields about
170 results including these patches.

https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/?q=b%3A%22BLURB+HERE%22