The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: try to avoid poor patch subject lines
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
checkpatch-try-to-avoid-poor-patch-subject-lines.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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 <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-try-to-avoid-poor-patch-subject-lines scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-try-to-avoid-poor-patch-subject-lines
+++ a/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*.*<?\bstable\@kernel\.org\b>?.*$/i) {
ERROR("STABLE_ADDRESS",
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch
fs-ufs-superc-remove-unnecessary-casting.patch
linux-next.patch
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