This series makes four incremental changes to check-git-log.sh to align DPDK's commit message trailer handling with the Linux kernel convention.
The motivation came from the recent work in kernel where the same patch needed different trailer formatting for DPDK vs. the kernel. This is unnecessary friction for developers who work across both projects. Patch 1: Use git's built-in %(trailers) format instead of grepping the commit body with hand-rolled patterns. Patch 2: Recognize the kernel trailer tags that DPDK was missing: Co-developed-by, Closes:, and Link:. Also adds proper format validation for Cc:, Coverity issue:, and Bugzilla ID: tags. Patch 3: Remove the blank line requirement between relation tags (Fixes, Cc) and attribution tags (Signed-off-by). All trailers now form a single contiguous block, matching kernel convention and git-interpret-trailers(1) semantics. Patch 4: Demote tag ordering from error to warning, since the kernel itself does not enforce strict ordering via tooling. Stephen Hemminger (4): devtools: use git trailer parser for tag extraction devtools: recognize kernel trailer tags devtools: remove blank line requirement between trailers devtools: demote tag ordering to warning devtools/check-git-log.sh | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- 2.53.0
