The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add spell checking of email subject line has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-add-spell-checking-of-email-subject-line.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-add-spell-checking-of-email-subject-line.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-add-spell-checking-of-email-subject-line.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add spell checking of email subject line Only commit log and patch additions are checked for typos and spelling errors currently. Add a check of the email subject line too. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-spell-checking-of-email-subject-line scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-spell-checking-of-email-subject-line +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2303,7 +2303,8 @@ sub process { } # Check for various typo / spelling mistakes - if (defined($misspellings) && ($in_commit_log || $line =~ /^\+/)) { + if (defined($misspellings) && + ($in_commit_log || $line =~ /^(?:\+|Subject:)/i)) { while ($rawline =~ /(?:^|[^a-z@])($misspellings)(?:$|[^a-z@])/gi) { my $typo = $1; my $typo_fix = $spelling_fix{lc($typo)}; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch proc-show-locks-in-proc-pid-fdinfo-x.patch x86-mtrr-if-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch power-wakeup-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch rtc-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch ipc-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch pxa27x_udc-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch microblaze-mb-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch microblaze-mb-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value-fix.patch nios2-cpuinfo-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch arm-plat-pxa-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch openrisc-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch cris-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch mfd-ab8500-debugfs-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch s390-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch i8k-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch watchdog-bcm281xx-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch proc-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch cgroup-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch tracing-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch lru_cache-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch parisc-remove-use-of-seq_printf-return-value.patch lib-vsprintfc-even-faster-decimal-conversion.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch checkpatch-improve-no-space-is-necessary-after-a-cast-test.patch checkpatch-add-spell-checking-of-email-subject-line.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html