The patch titled Subject: checkpatch-fix-typo_spelling-check-for-words-with-apostrophe-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-fix-typo_spelling-check-for-words-with-apostrophe-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-fix-typo_spelling-check-for-words-with-apostrophe-fix.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-fix-typo_spelling-check-for-words-with-apostrophe-fix.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: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch-fix-typo_spelling-check-for-words-with-apostrophe-fix make matched misspelling more obvious, per Joe Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/09c24ef1aa2f1c4fe909d76f5426f08780b9d81c.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-typo_spelling-check-for-words-with-apostrophe-fix +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3185,7 +3185,7 @@ sub process { while ($rawline =~ /(?:^|[^\w\-'`])($misspellings)(?:[^\w\-'`]|$)/gi) { my $typo = $1; my $blank = copy_spacing($rawline); - my $ptr = substr($blank, 0, $-[1]) . "^"; + my $ptr = substr($blank, 0, $-[1]) . "^" x length($typo); my $hereptr = "$hereline$ptr\n"; my $typo_fix = $spelling_fix{lc($typo)}; $typo_fix = ucfirst($typo_fix) if ($typo =~ /^[A-Z]/); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are kthread_worker-document-cpu-hotplug-handling-fix.patch mm.patch mm-remove-the-unuseful-else-after-a-return-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-prevent-gup_fast-from-racing-with-cow-during-fork-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-swap_state-skip-meaningless-swap-cache-readahead-when-ra_infowin-==-0-fix.patch mm-vmallocc-__vmalloc_area_node-avoid-32-bit-overflow.patch mm-truncateshmem-handle-truncates-that-split-thps-fix-fix.patch mm-vmstat-fix-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-generating-false-warnings-fix-2.patch lib-cmdline_kunit-add-a-new-test-suite-for-cmdline-api-fix.patch ilog2-improve-ilog2-for-constant-arguments-checkpatch-fixes.patch lib-test_bitmapc-add-for_each_set_clump-test-cases-checkpatch-fixes.patch checkpatch-fix-typo_spelling-check-for-words-with-apostrophe-fix.patch resource-fix-kernel-doc-markups-checkpatch-fixes.patch linux-next-rejects.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch