The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: Yet another commit id improvement has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-yet-another-commit-id-improvement.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-yet-another-commit-id-improvement.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-yet-another-commit-id-improvement.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: Yet another commit id improvement Using b isn't good enough to isolate what appears to be a commit id in a commit message. Make sure there is a space or a quote like character after a continuous run of hexadecimal characters that could be a commit id. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fdd22b47463a21c21132edbb8aa35e372950a1e6.1468869915.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Zhuo, Qiuxu" <qiuxu.zhuo@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-yet-another-commit-id-improvement scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-yet-another-commit-id-improvement +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2454,9 +2454,9 @@ sub process { # Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump && - $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|BugLink):/i && + $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink):/i && ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\b/i || - ($line =~ /\b[0-9a-f]{12,40}\b/i && + ($line =~ /(?:\s|^)[0-9a-f]{12,40}(?:[\s"'\(\[]|$)/i && $line !~ /[\<\[][0-9a-f]{12,40}[\>\]]/i && $line !~ /\bfixes:\s*[0-9a-f]{12,40}/i))) { my $init_char = "c"; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are printk-create-pr_level-functions.patch checkpatch-skip-long-lines-that-use-an-efi_guid-macro.patch checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments.patch checkpatch-yet-another-commit-id-improvement.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