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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 <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Joe Perches 2015-02-13 14:39:02 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 19c146a64c
commit a2fe16b9d8
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@ -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*.*<?\bstable\@kernel\.org\b>?.*$/i) {
ERROR("STABLE_ADDRESS",