Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 30.04.2018 14:46, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> 
> Some find using utf-8 in commit logs inappropriate.
> 
> Some patch commit logs contain unintended utf-8 characters when doing
> things like copy/pasting compilation output.
> 
> Look for the start of any commit log by skipping initial lines that look
> like email headers and "From: " lines.
> 
> Stop looking for utf-8 at the first signature line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> (cherry picked from commit 15662b3e8644905032c2e26808401a487d4e90c1)
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> 
> Conflicts:
>   QEMU does not have CHK(), use WARN() instead.
> 
>   QEMU WARN() only takes one argument, drop the 'type' value in the
>   first argument.
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>