Commit a2fe16b9 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 19c146a6
......@@ -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",
......
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