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

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

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

> From: Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@foss.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@bootlin.com>
> 	            ^^^^
> 
> Use a utf-8 version of $rawline for spell checking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@foss.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.