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checkpatch: detect unhandled placeholders in cover letters
authorOnur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:37:24 +0000 (20:37 +0300)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:48:29 +0000 (16:48 -0800)
commitfc387a0704cc86cf47de0e64236577af3e148ec2
treebae9b4fe479dfe2aa3ea1d6fbc0aca4ceffb11db
parent969493d7d6f957e1670a025330561d5912cd194c
checkpatch: detect unhandled placeholders in cover letters

Add a new check PLACEHOLDER_USE to detect unhandled placeholders.  This
prevents sending patch series with incomplete patches (mostly in cover
letters) containing auto generated subject or blurb lines.

These placeholders can be seen on mailing lists.  With this change,
checkpatch will emit an error when such text is found.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250917173725.22547-2-work@onurozkan.dev
Signed-off-by: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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