The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: special audit for revert commit line has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-special-audit-for-revert-commit-line.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ 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 -- 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