linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the i2c tree

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Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:14:11 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rayagonda Kokatanur <rayagonda.kokatanur@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the i2c tree


> > Thanks for reporting, I obviously didn't notice. Well, technically,
> > commit messages can be UTF8, so not really an error. However, it will
> > probably break lots of homebrew scripts, so a checkpatch warning it is,
> > then?
> 
> Not checkpatch, but my own script that checks some things about Fixes
> tags (attached).  Interestingly, my script does allow some other Unicode
> things (like matching quotes) ...

I wondered if it makes sense to add a warning to checkpatch; but on
second thought, the tags may include UTF8 anyhow for proper author
names. So, maybe we should be generous in what we accept and simply
update our tooling?


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