linux-kernel - Re: Bogus error in checkpatch.pl

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Message-ID: <1409718353.2715.3.camel@joe-AO725>
Date:	Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:25:53 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bogus error in checkpatch.pl

On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 00:03 -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> I receive an ERROR when running checkpatch.pl on a patch containing
> the following line:
> 
> Commit 615cc2c9cf95 "Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: fix important typo re
> 
> saying that the commit ID should be 12 or more characters when the
> commit ID is indeed 12 characters. I tried fixing it, but my perl is
> not up-to-par.

You need to use parentheses around the description like:
	commit <commitid> ("commit description")

For your case:

Commit 615cc2c9cf95 ("Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: fix important
typo re memory barriers")




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