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
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