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From: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bogus error in checkpatch.pl
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:09:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54072F1D.4060405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409722470.2715.5.camel@joe-AO725>


On 09/03/2014 01:34 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> Maybe.  Suggest a modified message.
>

How about the following?

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b602ed2..bcc384e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2143,7 +2143,7 @@ sub process {
                        my $desc = 'commit description';
                        ($id, $desc) = git_commit_info($orig_commit, $id, $desc);
                        ERROR("GIT_COMMIT_ID",
-                             "Please use 12 or more chars for the git commit ID like: '${init_char}ommit $id (\"$desc\")'\n" . $herecurr);
+                             "Please use 12 or more chars for the git commit ID and parentheses for the commit message like: '${init_char}ommit $id (\"$desc\")'\n" . $herecurr);
                }
 
 # Check for added, moved or deleted files


      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-03 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-03  4:03 Bogus error in checkpatch.pl Pranith Kumar
2014-09-03  4:25 ` Joe Perches
2014-09-03  4:29   ` Pranith Kumar
2014-09-03  5:34     ` Joe Perches
2014-09-03 15:09       ` Pranith Kumar [this message]

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