@matttbe @kernellogger checkpatch isn't an arbiter of truth to begin with, especially in arch code it reports a bunch of spurious stuff.
I was just a bit annoyed by it the other day when checkpatch complained, telling me that I should have a Closes: pointing to a competing patch for a problem.
I guess I had had it in my head that what was accepted was going to allow Reported-by: followed by Link: & complain only about "bare" Reported-by:.
> it is similar to the previous situation where there are cases where it doesn't even make sense to have a Link tag after a Reported-by.
Yah, that's probably fair.