Re: checkpatch wrong error message

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 13:57 +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Running ./scripts/checkpatch on the attached [1] patch i get the
> following error:
> 
> ERROR: Please use 12 or more chars for the git commit ID like: 'commit
> 01234567890ab ("commit description")'
> #6:
> After commit b2b49ccbdd54 (PM: Kconfig: Set PM_RUNTIME if PM_SLEEP is

checkpatch uses the same message for multiple forms.

There were some patches around to make this clearer.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/20/630

Your commit message does not have quotes around the text.

It should be:

After commit <2b49ccbdd54 ("PM: Kconfig: Set ...")


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