The patch titled checkpatch: kake utf-8 test --strict has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-make-utf-8-test-strict.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: kake utf-8 test --strict From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Some patches are sent in using ISO-8859 or even Windows codepage 1252. Make checkpatch accept these by default and only emit the "Invalid UTF-8" message when using --strict. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-make-utf-8-test-strict scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-make-utf-8-test-strict +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1609,8 +1609,8 @@ sub process { my $ptr = substr($blank, 0, length($utf8_prefix)) . "^"; my $hereptr = "$hereline$ptr\n"; - ERROR("INVALID_UTF8", - "Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr); + CHK("INVALID_UTF8", + "Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr); } # ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-use-kzalloc-kcalloc-instead-of-kmallocmemset-where-possible.patch get_maintainerspl-improve-mailmap-parsing.patch maintainers-update-high-resolution-timers-patterns.patch maintainers-remove-section-usb-se401-driver.patch checkpatch-suggest-using-min_t-or-max_t-v2.patch checkpatch-add-__rcu-as-a-sparse-modifier.patch checkpatch-validate-signature-styles-and-to-and-cc-lines.patch checkpatch-add-a-prefer-__aligned-check.patch checkpatchpl-add-ability-to-ignore-various-messages.patch checkpatch-make-utf-8-test-strict.patch ramoops-use-module-parameters-instead-of-platform-data-if-not-available.patch ramoops-use-module-parameters-instead-of-platform-data-if-not-available-checkpatch-fixes.patch ramoops-add-new-line-to-each-print.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