From a2fe16b9d878a101b67678872e5cd1410c057ec0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Perches Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:39:02 -0800 Subject: checkpatch: try to avoid poor patch subject lines Naming the tool that found an issue in the subject line isn't very useful. Emit a warning when a common tool (currently checkpatch, sparse or smatch) is in the subject line. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Suggested-by: Al Viro Acked-by: Dan Carpenter Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'scripts') diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 3642b0d5ad6a..9c720e1261e9 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2170,6 +2170,13 @@ sub process { } } +# Check email subject for common tools that don't need to be mentioned + if ($in_header_lines && + $line =~ /^Subject:.*\b(?:checkpatch|sparse|smatch)\b[^:]/i) { + WARN("EMAIL_SUBJECT", + "A patch subject line should describe the change not the tool that found it\n" . $herecurr); + } + # Check for old stable address if ($line =~ /^\s*cc:\s*.*?.*$/i) { ERROR("STABLE_ADDRESS", -- cgit v1.2.3