[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH RFC] checkpatch: add new cases to commit handling

[Dwaipayan Ray]

> > Yes, I had a previous warning dump for 50k commits
> > from v5.4.
> >
> > Earlier, no. of GIT_COMMIT ID errors was: 1032.
> > After the patch it is: 897.
> >
> Impact-wise that sounds like a good contribution to checkpatch.
>
> > I haven't checked which ones exactly were fixed though.
> > I think I could extract those commit references just to be
> > sure.
> >
>
> Let us create a quick list of those; it will probably just take a few
> minutes to check them. And Joe is probably going to ask for an
> independent check anyway :)
>
> Add the summary of the evaluation to the commit message and then let
> us send this patch to Joe and lkml.
>
> Lukas

Sure okay, I will prepare the list and send it off :)

Thanks,
Dwaipayan.