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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2014-08-07 03:10:35 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-08-07 05:01:27 +0400 |
| commit | 29ee1b0c67e0dd7dea8dd718e8326076bce5b6fe (patch) | |
| tree | 65a2a6d8b3c9d5530f38bba1b1ac852de99a53db /scripts | |
| parent | 5a4e1fd37d0677755391e2e89e9386e072265157 (diff) | |
| download | linux-29ee1b0c67e0dd7dea8dd718e8326076bce5b6fe.tar.xz | |
checkpatch: ignore email headers better
There are some patches created by git format-patch that when scanned by
checkpatch report errors on lines like
To: address.tld
This is a checkpatch false positive.
Improve the logic a bit to ignore folded email headers to avoid emitting
these messages.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 538105ae88b3..1ec68083a929 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ sub process { my $signoff = 0; my $is_patch = 0; - my $in_header_lines = 1; + my $in_header_lines = $file ? 0 : 1; my $in_commit_log = 0; #Scanning lines before patch my $non_utf8_charset = 0; @@ -1993,7 +1993,8 @@ sub process { # Check if it's the start of a commit log # (not a header line and we haven't seen the patch filename) if ($in_header_lines && $realfile =~ /^$/ && - $rawline !~ /^(commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:).+$/i) { + !($rawline =~ /^\s+\S/ || + $rawline =~ /^(commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:).*$/i)) { $in_header_lines = 0; $in_commit_log = 1; } |