On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 16:30 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 08:13:10PM +0100, Andreas Ruprecht wrote:
>
> > On a serious note: I do understand what you're getting at, I don't take
> > that personally (and I will send a v2 addressing the things above), but
> > honestly, this kind of answer might just be a real turn-off for other
> > people trying to get into kernel development...
> >
> > I don't want to start a whole new 'attitude in the kernel community'
> > discussion, but I can't just let this go like that, sorry.
Maybe YA checkpatch warning when patch subjects
include either "checkpatch" or "sparse" would help?
Something like:
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3642b0d..b6bed59 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2170,6 +2170,13 @@ sub process {
}
}
+# Check email subject for poor style
+ if ($in_header_lines &&
+ $line =~ /^Subject:.*\b(?:checkpatch|sparse)\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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