Hi Joe, On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > 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") >
Ah, OK. But the error message does not say anything about missing paranetheses and only stresses on chars in the id: $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl patch_dir/0001-doc-memory-barriers.txt-Correct-example-for-reorderi.patch ERROR: Please use 12 or more chars for the git commit ID like: 'Commit 615cc2c9cf95 ("Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: fix important typo re memory barriers")' #8: Commit 615cc2c9cf95 "Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: fix important typo re Is it possible to make it a bit clearer, perhaps? Thanks! -- Pranith -- 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/