linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies

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Message-ID: <20090228174721.GA4814@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:47:22 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:40:12AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk> wrote:

> > Try to help ensure that e-mailed patches have some commit log text in
> > the body of the e-mail by warning if we can't find any lines that look
> > like a header of some kind prior to the Signed-off-by.

> maybe we should also spell check the changelog (aspell ?)

I'd expect that'd lead to a lot of false positives on names and
technical terms, wouldn't it?
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