Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies

[Stefan Richter]

Mark Brown wrote:
> Try to help ensure that e-mailed patches have some commit log text in
> the body of the e-mail by warning if we can't find any lines that look
> like a header of some kind prior to the Signed-off-by.

This gives false positives for patches like this:

From: [...]
Subject: this single line fully explains the whole patch

Signed-off-by: [...]
---
[...]

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