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authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>2020-04-06 20:10:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-07 10:43:43 -0700
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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-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
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 &&