Checkpatch: Add another old address for the FSF

From	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Checkpatch: Add another old address for the FSF
Date	2017-01-28 18:40 +0100
Message-ID	<t4F8K-4pL-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

We still have a lot of old addresses for the FSF in the kernel.

willy@harry:~/kernel/idr$ git grep '675 Mass' |wc -l
1502
willy@harry:~/kernel/idr$ git grep '59 Temple' |wc -l
2825
willy@harry:~/kernel/idr$ git grep '51 Franklin' |wc -l
2020

Let's discourage adding the oldest one too.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 982c52ca6473..6163a51f31e5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2695,6 +2695,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # Check for FSF mailing addresses.
 		if ($rawline =~ /\bwrite to the Free/i ||
+		    $rawline =~ /\b675\s+Mass\s+Ave/i ||
 		    $rawline =~ /\b59\s+Temple\s+Pl/i ||
 		    $rawline =~ /\b51\s+Franklin\s+St/i) {
 			my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";

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Checkpatch: Add another old address for the FSF Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> - 2017-01-28 18:40 +0100
  Re: Checkpatch: Add another old address for the FSF Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-01-28 19:40 +0100

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