Since this list was created to share scripts, here's one that I currently use to test that the "Fixes:" tags are correct on a commit. I run it on all patches that I accept into my trees, after getting emails from Stephen one too many times :) It's almost entirely based on Stephen's original script, but has been changed a bit in formatting and usage to be a stand-alone script that anyone can use. To use: verify_fixes.sh GIT_RANGE if all is good, script will print nothing out and exit with success. If there is a problem it will be printed out and the script will exit with an error that you can check from any other program. It it 'shellcheck' clean, but I'm sure that there are other things wrong with it, so feel free to point out problems. And should stuff like this be in the kernel tree itself? thanks, greg k-h