On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 at 17:24, Peter Maydell <[email protected]> wrote: > > The checkpatch.pl script insists that Fixes tags are at the start of > each line of its input. Although this is where they ought to be > in the commit message, it is not where the script will see them > in common usage patterns like > > git show <hash> | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl - > > because 'git show' prefaces each line of the commit message body with > four spaces. Allow spaces before the Fixes tag; this matches how we > check for e.g. Signed-off-by: tags. > > Reported-by: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]> > Fixes: 910e1d41be6b2 ("scripts/checkpatch: validate Fixes: tag format and > commit ancestry") > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <[email protected]> > --- > I just ran into this myself today as well so wrote up the patch
Thanks for that! Tested-by: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
