On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:33:56AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Several staging directories have TODO files that indicate a
> subsystem will be removed in the future.
> 
> Using a status entry of "S:   Obsolete" helps indicate the
> subsystem files should not be modified unnecessarily.
> 
> checkpatch also tests this setting and emits a warning that
> the matching subsystem files should not be modified.
> 
> This might help avoid receiving patches that will be dropped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>

Ah nice, I didn't know about this, I'll go queue this up, thanks.

greg k-h

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