On 10/19/11 02:27, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
>>>> This started happening when I run checkpatch on pretty much anything.
>>>> triggered by the b in this snipped for example
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-pxa/stargate2.c b/arch/arm/mach-pxa/stargate2.c
>>>> index 3f8d0af..62dc2a8 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-pxa/stargate2.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-pxa/stargate2.c
>>>> @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
>>>>  #include <linux/mfd/da903x.h>
>>>> Anyone else seeing this or have a clue what the heck is going on?
>>
>> It's done this since:
>>
>> $ git log -1 1e85572697b348b1a126520349a29654f2ae6a12
>> commit 1e85572697b348b1a126520349a29654f2ae6a12
>> Author: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
>> Date:   Tue Jan 6 14:41:24 2009 -0800
>>
>>     checkpatch: Add warning for p0-patches
>>     
> 
> Hmm, not sure how useful that is unless both prefixes ('a' and 'b') exist.
Sorry, I missed one detail. This warning is firing on every patch including
any I pull off mailing lists or produce with git format-patch

As you can imagine - this is rather tedious.

As a random example see the attached patch from yesterday.

Jonathan