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checkpatch: add spell checking of email subject line
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Only commit log and patch additions are checked for typos and spelling
errors currently.  Add a check of the email subject line too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 17, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -2303,7 +2303,8 @@ sub process {
}

# Check for various typo / spelling mistakes
if (defined($misspellings) && ($in_commit_log || $line =~ /^\+/)) {
if (defined($misspellings) &&
($in_commit_log || $line =~ /^(?:\+|Subject:)/i)) {
while ($rawline =~ /(?:^|[^a-z@])($misspellings)(?:$|[^a-z@])/gi) {
my $typo = $1;
my $typo_fix = $spelling_fix{lc($typo)};
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