Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: improve email parsing

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Nov 08 2020 - 06:37:03 EST


On Sun, 2020-11-08 at 15:36 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> checkpatch doesn't report warnings for many common mistakes
> in emails. Some of which are trailing commas and incorrect
> use of email comments.

(just in case link to parent emailed patch for Andrew)

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201108100632.75340-1-dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u

Thanks Dwaipayan.

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

You should start to add changelog blocks to these
versioned patches so it's easier to look for what
changed between versions.

here...

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl

etc...