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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
teemow · Jul 26, 2011 · 34d9921 · 34d9921
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1609,8 +1609,8 @@ sub process {
 			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