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checkpatch: Add spell checking of email subject line

Message ID 1425574649.31859.14.camel@perches.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Joe Perches March 5, 2015, 4:57 p.m. UTC
Only commit log and patch additions are checked for
typos and spelling errors currently.  Add a check
of the email subject line too.

Suggested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Jani Nikula March 6, 2015, 7:54 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> Only commit log and patch additions are checked for
> typos and spelling errors currently.  Add a check
> of the email subject line too.
>
> Suggested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Thanks Joe.

FWIW,

Tested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 421bbb4..c061a63 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)};
>
>
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 421bbb4..c061a63 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)};