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| author | John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> | 2020-04-06 20:10:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-04-07 10:43:43 -0700 |
| commit | a8972573eb5c784a9c199fedbfdfb694e0ca4233 (patch) | |
| tree | bc59757b149e0e70c666d0036f78a01926ac027f /scripts | |
| parent | c8df0ab61454aa1c84e97af3673ee8db44e39f05 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-a8972573eb5c784a9c199fedbfdfb694e0ca4233.tar.gz lwn-a8972573eb5c784a9c199fedbfdfb694e0ca4233.zip | |
checkpatch: support "base-commit:" format
In order to support the get-lore-mbox.py tool described in [1], I ran:
git format-patch --base=<commit> --cover-letter <revrange>
... which generated a "base-commit: <commit-hash>" tag at the end of the
cover letter. However, checkpatch.pl generated an error upon encounting
"base-commit:" in the cover letter:
"ERROR: Please use git commit description style..."
... because it found the "commit" keyword, and failed to recognize that
it was part of the "base-commit" phrase, and as such, should not be
subjected to the same commit description style rules.
Update checkpatch.pl to include a special case for "base-commit:" (at the
start of the line, possibly with some leading whitespace) so that that tag
no longer generates a checkpatch error.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/811528/ "Better tools for kernel
developers"
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200213055004.69235-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 977d4c0c2dc9..ede55afaadf0 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2780,7 +2780,7 @@ sub process { # Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump && - $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink):/i && + $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink|base-commit):/i && $line !~ /^This reverts commit [0-9a-f]{7,40}/ && ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\b/i || ($line =~ /(?:\s|^)[0-9a-f]{12,40}(?:[\s"'\(\[]|$)/i && |