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

[Mark Brown]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 02:58:14PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:

> This gives false positives for patches like this:

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

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

That's not a false postive, that's exactly the case it's intended to
catch.  People like Andrew Morton complain because there's no text in
the actual body of the email (as well as because some of the patches
that do this could probably use a bit more explanation).
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