The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: support "base-commit:" format has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-support-base-commit-format.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: support "base-commit:" format In order to support the get-lore-mbox.py tool described in [1], I ran: git format-patch --base=<commit> --cover-letter <revrange> ... which generated a "base-commit: <commit-hash>" tag at the end of the cover letter. However, checkpatch.pl generated an error upon encounting "base-commit:" in the cover letter: "ERROR: Please use git commit description style..." ... because it found the "commit" keyword, and failed to recognize that it was part of the "base-commit" phrase, and as such, should not be subjected to the same commit description style rules. Update checkpatch.pl to include a special case for "base-commit:" (at the start of the line, possibly with some leading whitespace) so that that tag no longer generates a checkpatch error. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/811528/ "Better tools for kernel developers" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200213055004.69235-2-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-support-base-commit-format +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2780,7 +2780,7 @@ 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 !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink|base-commit):/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 && _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are