On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:38:50PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > From: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com> > > A driver patch under net should start with "net/<driver name>" or if > a patch touch multiple drivers, it should only start with "net:". > The same apply for crypto. > A patch touching all drivers (net + crypto) should start with "drivers:". > > Longer prefixes like "net/mlx:" (for mlx4/mlx5) or "net/e1000/base:" are > handled by not checking the colon. > > Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> > --- > scripts/check-git-log.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/scripts/check-git-log.sh b/scripts/check-git-log.sh > index 833aa39..3f3cf19 100755 > --- a/scripts/check-git-log.sh > +++ b/scripts/check-git-log.sh > @@ -70,6 +70,23 @@ bad=$(echo "$headlines" | grep --color=always \ > | sed 's,^,\t,') > [ -z "$bad" ] || printf "Wrong headline format:\n$bad\n" > > +# check headline prefix when touching only drivers/, e.g. net/<driver name> > +bad=$(for commit in $commits ; do > + headline=$(git log --format='%s' -1 $commit) > + files=$(git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r $commit) > + [ -z "$(echo "$files" | grep -v '^drivers/')" ] || continue
Given the preference for including documentation in with the code changes, we should perhaps exclude any doc changes when making this check. /Bruce
