From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753249AbZB1Rrr (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:47:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754575AbZB1Rrh (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:47:37 -0500 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:1220 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754544AbZB1Rrg (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:47:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:47:22 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20090228174721.GA4814@sirena.org.uk> References: <1235757920-20474-1-git-send-email-broonie@sirena.org.uk> <20090228094012.6d98ce05@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090228094012.6d98ce05@infradead.org> X-Cookie: Big book, big bore. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 82.41.28.43 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:14:11 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:40:12AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Mark Brown 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?