Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] checkpatch: Add spell checking of email subject line | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:57:29 -0800 |
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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(-)
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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