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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2011-07-25 17:13:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-25 20:57:16 -0700
commit34d99219726ff4d3425b360d1e8d081627a73a00 (patch)
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checkpatch: make utf-8 test --strict
Some patches are sent in using ISO-8859 or even Windows codepage 1252. Make checkpatch accept these by default and only emit the "Invalid UTF-8" message when using --strict. 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>
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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 05777ab818f1..8dd720ac0069 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1609,8 +1609,8 @@ sub process {
my $ptr = substr($blank, 0, length($utf8_prefix)) . "^";
my $hereptr = "$hereline$ptr\n";
- ERROR("INVALID_UTF8",
- "Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
+ CHK("INVALID_UTF8",
+ "Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
}
# ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed