From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754753AbZB1N6i (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:58:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753976AbZB1N62 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:58:28 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:42639 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752117AbZB1N61 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:58:27 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <49A942F6.3020600@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:58:14 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090104 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies References: <1235757920-20474-1-git-send-email-broonie@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1235757920-20474-1-git-send-email-broonie@sirena.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. This gives false positives for patches like this: From: [...] Subject: this single line fully explains the whole patch Signed-off-by: [...] --- [...] -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= --=- ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/