linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: special audit for revert commit line

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Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:23:23 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Wei Wang <wvw@...gle.com>, apw@...onical.com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: special audit for revert commit line

On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 12:15 -0700, Wei Wang wrote:
> From: Wei Wang <wvw@...gle.com>
> 
> Currently checkpatch.pl does not recognize git's default
> commit revert message and will complain about the hash format.
> Add special audit for revert commit message line to fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wvw@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index baa3c7be04ad..9570db236ba3 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2539,6 +2539,7 @@ sub process {
>  # Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions
>  		if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_possible_stack_dump &&
>  		    $line !~ /^\s*(?:Link|Patchwork|http|https|BugLink):/i &&
> +		    $line !~ /^This reverts commit [0-9a-f]{7,40}/ &&
>  		    ($line =~ /\bcommit\s+[0-9a-f]{5,}\b/i ||
>  		     ($line =~ /(?:\s|^)[0-9a-f]{12,40}(?:[\s"'\(\[]|$)/i &&
>  		      $line !~ /[\<\[][0-9a-f]{12,40}[\>\]]/i &&