checkpatch: make utf-8 test --strict
Some patches are sent in using ISO-8859 or even Windows codepage 1252.
Make checkpatch accept these by default and only emit the "Invalid UTF-8"
message when using --strict.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 05777ab..8dd720ac 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1609,8 +1609,8 @@
my $ptr = substr($blank, 0, length($utf8_prefix)) . "^";
my $hereptr = "$hereline$ptr\n";
- ERROR("INVALID_UTF8",
- "Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
+ CHK("INVALID_UTF8",
+ "Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr);
}
# ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed