The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: special audit for revert commit line has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-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: Wei Wang <wvw@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: special audit for revert commit line Currently checkpatch.pl does not recognize git's default commit revert message and will complain about the hash format. Add special audit for revert commit message line to fix it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170411191532.74381-1-wvw@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wvw@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2539,6 +2539,7 @@ 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|https|BugLink):/i && + $line !~ /^This reverts commit [0-9a-f]{7,40}/ && ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\b/i || ($line =~ /(?:\s|^)[0-9a-f]{12,40}(?:[\s"'\(\[]|$)/i && $line !~ /[\<\[][0-9a-f]{12,40}[\>\]]/i && _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wvw@xxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.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