linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND v2] checkpatch: use utf-8 match for spell checking

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Message-Id: <20250616173022.6a0d4c2cbdd3df8c803c5012@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:30:22 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Clément Le Goffic <clement.legoffic@...s.st.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
 Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>, Lukas Bulwahn
 <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Antonio Borneo
 <antonio.borneo@...s.st.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v2] checkpatch: use utf-8 match for spell
 checking

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:59:13 +0200 Clément Le Goffic <clement.legoffic@...s.st.com> wrote:

> From: Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@...s.st.com>
> 
> The current code that checks for misspelling verifies, in a more
> complex regex, if $rawline matches [^\w]($misspellings)[^\w]
> 
> Being $rawline a byte-string, a utf-8 character in $rawline can
> match the non-word-char [^\w].
> E.g.:
> 	./scripts/checkpatch.pl --git 81c2f059ab9
> 	WARNING: 'ment' may be misspelled - perhaps 'meant'?
> 	#36: FILE: MAINTAINERS:14360:
> 	+M:     Clément Léger <clement.leger@...tlin.com>
> 	            ^^^^
> 
> Use a utf-8 version of $rawline for spell checking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@...s.st.com>

This should have included your signed-off-by.  as you were on the patch
delivery path.  I have made that change to the mm.git copy of this
patch, thanks.