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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index ca05ba217f5f..5ae91889bc6b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1386,6 +1386,8 @@ sub process {
my $in_header_lines = 1;
my $in_commit_log = 0; #Scanning lines before patch
+ my $non_utf8_charset = 0;
+
our @report = ();
our $cnt_lines = 0;
our $cnt_error = 0;
@@ -1686,10 +1688,17 @@ sub process {
$in_commit_log = 1;
}
-# Still not yet in a patch, check for any UTF-8
- if ($in_commit_log && $realfile =~ /^$/ &&
+# Check if there is UTF-8 in a commit log when a mail header has explicitly
+# declined it, i.e defined some charset where it is missing.
+ if ($in_header_lines &&
+ $rawline =~ /^Content-Type:.+charset="(.+)".*$/ &&
+ $1 !~ /utf-8/i) {
+ $non_utf8_charset = 1;
+ }
+
+ if ($in_commit_log && $non_utf8_charset && $realfile =~ /^$/ &&
$rawline =~ /$NON_ASCII_UTF8/) {
- CHK("UTF8_BEFORE_PATCH",
+ WARN("UTF8_BEFORE_PATCH",
"8-bit UTF-8 used in possible commit log\n" . $herecurr);
}