Re: [BUG] checkpatch: false positive for commits with quote characters

[Brian Norris]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:48:27AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 14:43 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What is the Blessed (TM) style for referencing commits that have quote
> > characters in their subject line? e.g., this commit:
> > 
> > commit 43163022927b6e7d202a7e6f939c3f392465494d
> > Author: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Tue May 19 14:38:22 2015 -0700
> > 
> >     mtd: m25p80: allow arbitrary OF matching for "jedec,spi-nor"
> > 
> > Checkpatch reports false positive errors like this:
> > 
> >   ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of
> >   sha1> ("")'
> 
> Hi Brian.
> 
> What version of checkpatch are you using?
> 
> Using linux-next:
> 
> $ git log --stat -p -1 --format=email 43163022927b6e7d202a7e6f939c3f392465494d | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -

I was referring to running checkpatch on this:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/16/826

which *referenced* commit 43163022927b6e7d202a7e6f939c3f392465494d.
Sorry if that wasn't clear.

See below,
Brian

$ curl http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/545234/mbox/ | scripts/checkpatch.pl -
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  3741    0  3741    0     0  11525      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 11510
ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'Commit 43163022927b ("mtd: m25p80: allow arbitrary OF matching for "jedec,spi-nor"")'
#17: 
Commit 43163022927b ("mtd: m25p80: allow arbitrary OF matching for

total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 29 lines checked

Your patch has style problems, please review.

NOTE: Ignored message types: FILE_PATH_CHANGES

NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
      them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

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