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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2014-08-06 16:10:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 18:01:27 -0700
commit29ee1b0c67e0dd7dea8dd718e8326076bce5b6fe (patch)
tree65a2a6d8b3c9d5530f38bba1b1ac852de99a53db /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent5a4e1fd37d0677755391e2e89e9386e072265157 (diff)
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checkpatch: ignore email headers better
There are some patches created by git format-patch that when scanned by checkpatch report errors on lines like To: address.tld This is a checkpatch false positive. Improve the logic a bit to ignore folded email headers to avoid emitting these messages. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 538105ae88b3..1ec68083a929 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ sub process {
my $signoff = 0;
my $is_patch = 0;
- my $in_header_lines = 1;
+ my $in_header_lines = $file ? 0 : 1;
my $in_commit_log = 0; #Scanning lines before patch
my $non_utf8_charset = 0;
@@ -1993,7 +1993,8 @@ sub process {
# Check if it's the start of a commit log
# (not a header line and we haven't seen the patch filename)
if ($in_header_lines && $realfile =~ /^$/ &&
- $rawline !~ /^(commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:).+$/i) {
+ !($rawline =~ /^\s+\S/ ||
+ $rawline =~ /^(commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:).*$/i)) {
$in_header_lines = 0;
$in_commit_log = 1;
}