The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: check utf-8 content from a commit log when it's missing from charset has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-check-utf-8-content-from-a-commit-log-when-its-missing-from-charset.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Pasi Savanainen <pasi.savanainen@xxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: check utf-8 content from a commit log when it's missing from charset Check that a commit log doesn't contain UTF-8 when a mail header explicitly defines a different charset, like 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"' Signed-off-by: Pasi Savanainen <pasi.savanainen@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-check-utf-8-content-from-a-commit-log-when-its-missing-from-charset scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-check-utf-8-content-from-a-commit-log-when-its-missing-from-charset +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1386,6 +1386,8 @@ sub process { my $in_header_lines = 1; my $in_commit_log = 0; #Scanning lines before patch + my $non_utf8_charset = 0; + our @report = (); our $cnt_lines = 0; our $cnt_error = 0; @@ -1686,10 +1688,17 @@ sub process { $in_commit_log = 1; } -# Still not yet in a patch, check for any UTF-8 - if ($in_commit_log && $realfile =~ /^$/ && +# Check if there is UTF-8 in a commit log when a mail header has explicitly +# declined it, i.e defined some charset where it is missing. + if ($in_header_lines && + $rawline =~ /^Content-Type:.+charset="(.+)".*$/ && + $1 !~ /utf-8/i) { + $non_utf8_charset = 1; + } + + if ($in_commit_log && $non_utf8_charset && $realfile =~ /^$/ && $rawline =~ /$NON_ASCII_UTF8/) { - CHK("UTF8_BEFORE_PATCH", + WARN("UTF8_BEFORE_PATCH", "8-bit UTF-8 used in possible commit log\n" . $herecurr); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from pasi.savanainen@xxxxxxxx are origin.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