Naming the tool that found an issue in the subject line isn't very useful. Emit a warning when a common tool (currently checkpatch, sparse or smatch) is in the subject line.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Inspired-by: Al Viro <[email protected]> Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 3642b0d..b6bed59 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2170,6 +2170,13 @@ sub process { } } +# Check email subject for common tools that don't need to be mentioned + if ($in_header_lines && + $line =~ /^Subject:.*\b(?:checkpatch|sparse|smatch)\b[^:]/i) { + WARN("EMAIL_SUBJECT", + "A patch subject line should describe the change not the tool that found it\n" . $herecurr); + } + # Check for old stable address if ($line =~ /^\s*cc:\s*.*<?\bstable\@kernel\.org\b>?.*$/i) { ERROR("STABLE_ADDRESS", -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
