On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 00:03 -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote: > I receive an ERROR when running checkpatch.pl on a patch containing > the following line: > > Commit 615cc2c9cf95 "Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: fix important typo re > > saying that the commit ID should be 12 or more characters when the > commit ID is indeed 12 characters. I tried fixing it, but my perl is > not up-to-par.
You need to use parentheses around the description like: commit <commitid> ("commit description") For your case: Commit 615cc2c9cf95 ("Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: fix important typo re memory barriers") -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/