linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: exclude gerrit's Change-Id line from commit description

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Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2023 12:02:55 +0200
From:   Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@...il.com>
To:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: exclude gerrit's Change-Id line from commit description

Checkpatch rejects patches that have empty commit description and
logs them with:
	WARNING:COMMIT_MESSAGE: Missing commit description - Add an appropriate one
But if the patch has a gerrit's Change-Id line placed before the
line Signed-off-by, then checkpatch considers the Change-Id line
as a valid commit description text.

Use the Change-Id tag as a marker of the end of the commit message,
thus not counting its line as part of the commit description.

This patch is not relevant for the Linux kernel development process
as gerrit is not involved and the Change-Id tag is rejected. But
other projects, like OpenOCD, base the development on gerrit and
reuse kernel's checkpatch with flag '--ignore GERRIT_CHANGE_ID'.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@...il.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bd44d12965c9..5b2212d5907b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3224,6 +3224,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # Check for Gerrit Change-Ids not in any patch context
 		if ($realfile eq '' && !$has_patch_separator && $line =~ /^\s*change-id:/i) {
+			$in_commit_log = 0;
 			if (ERROR("GERRIT_CHANGE_ID",
 			          "Remove Gerrit Change-Id's before submitting upstream\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {

base-commit: 09a9639e56c01c7a00d6c0ca63f4c7c41abe075d
-- 
2.40.0