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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2015-04-16 12:44:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-17 09:03:56 -0400
commit66d7a382cb5d2d40b468e68b665bbf6f9bc3400e (patch)
tree7b3efc55125231ca66dad0b80fa4966865fcd07d /scripts
parent6ab3a9701e00c2a085bac6a7a9bdcf8fc5eca6c5 (diff)
checkpatch: add spell checking of email subject line
Only commit log and patch additions are checked for typos and spelling errors currently. Add a check of the email subject line too. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Suggested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 421bbb47844f..c061a63afa20 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2303,7 +2303,8 @@ sub process {
}
# Check for various typo / spelling mistakes
- if (defined($misspellings) && ($in_commit_log || $line =~ /^\+/)) {
+ if (defined($misspellings) &&
+ ($in_commit_log || $line =~ /^(?:\+|Subject:)/i)) {
while ($rawline =~ /(?:^|[^a-z@])($misspellings)(?:$|[^a-z@])/gi) {
my $typo = $1;
my $typo_fix = $spelling_fix{lc($typo)};