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authorMartin Roth <martin@coreboot.org>2022-03-22 18:06:15 -0600
committerMartin L Roth <gaumless@tutanota.com>2022-05-28 01:26:03 +0000
commit97e7eea976508466543401115431ca354ecafb0d (patch)
tree1ecaf19c1b83dbd4aa9da6e80c3e216071957b9e /util/lint
parent341a53d1c562c4adbe15e38fdde9b7bc89e4a796 (diff)
util/lint/checkpatch: Warn on period at the end of commit subject
This gives a warning when there's a period at the end of the commit subject line. Change-Id: If95bef3ba01e0ac13ce18045928081040abef4fd Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martin@coreboot.org> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/63032 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Elyes Haouas <ehaouas@noos.fr> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@mailbox.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'util/lint')
-rwxr-xr-xutil/lint/checkpatch.pl5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/util/lint/checkpatch.pl b/util/lint/checkpatch.pl
index 0e2988ea9b..ce56feb6cc 100755
--- a/util/lint/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/util/lint/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2854,6 +2854,7 @@ sub process {
# coreboot: The line subject limit is 65
# Check for line lengths > 65 in commit subject
+# coreboot: Check for a period at the end of the subject line
if ($in_header_lines &&
$line =~ /^Subject: /) {
$line = $line.$rawlines[$linenr];
@@ -2862,6 +2863,10 @@ sub process {
WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE",
"Possible long commit subject (prefer a maximum 65 characters)\n" . $herecurr);
}
+ if ($line =~ /\.$/) {
+ WARN("SUBJECT_HAS_FULL_STOP",
+ "Subject line should not end with a period.\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
}
# Reset possible stack dump if a blank line is found