Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the i2c tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Apr 28 2020 - 04:41:11 EST


Hi Wolfram,

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:01:30 +0200 Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This triggered because the "space" after the ":" is a Unicode non-breaking
> > space (U+0x00a0, UTF8 0xc2 0xa0). I am not sure if this is a problem
> > or not. This is the forst time I have seen this.
>
> Thanks for reporting, I obviously didn't notice. Well, technically,
> commit messages can be UTF8, so not really an error. However, it will
> probably break lots of homebrew scripts, so a checkpatch warning it is,
> then?

Not checkpatch, but my own script that checks some things about Fixes
tags (attached). Interestingly, my script does allow some other Unicode
things (like matching quotes) ...

> I'll fix it nonetheless.

Thanks.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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