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

[Peter Maydell]

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