The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: don't interpret stack dumps as commit IDs has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.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/process/submit-checklist.rst 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: don't interpret stack dumps as commit IDs For testing purposes. changelog goes here Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff00208289224f0ca4eaf4ff7c9c6e087dad0a63.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2674,8 +2674,10 @@ sub process { ($line =~ /^\s*(?:WARNING:|BUG:)/ || $line =~ /^\s*\[\s*\d+\.\d{6,6}\s*\]/ || # timestamp - $line =~ /^\s*\[\<[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}\>\]/)) { - # stack dump address + $line =~ /^\s*\[\<[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}\>\]/) || + $line =~ /^(?:\s+\w+:\s+[0-9a-fA-F]+){3,3}/ || + $line =~ /^\s*\#\d+\s*\[[0-9a-fA-F]+\]\s*\w+ at [0-9a-fA-F]+/) { + # stack dump address styles $commit_log_possible_stack_dump = 1; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch checkpatch-warn-on-const-char-foo-=-bar-declarations.patch