On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 11:24 +0530, Nachiket Naganure wrote: > Disable commit log length check in case of signature tag. If the commit > log line has valid signature tags such as "Reported-and-tested-by" with > more than 75 characters, suppress the long length warning. > > For instance in commit ac854131d984 ("USB: core: Fix misleading driver bug > report"), the corresponding patch contains a "Reported by" tag line which > exceeds 75 chars. And there is no valid way to shorten the length. > > Signed-off-by: Nachiket Naganure <nachiket...@gmail.com> > --- > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > index 197436b20288..46237e9e0550 100755 > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > @@ -2806,6 +2806,8 @@ sub process { > # filename then : > $line =~ /^\s*(?:Fixes:|Link:)/i || > # A Fixes: or Link: line > + $line =~ /$signature_tags/ || > + # Check for signature_tags > $commit_log_possible_stack_dump)) { > WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE", > "Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a > maximum 75 chars per line)\n" . $herecurr);
OK, but the test should be: $line =~ /^\s*$signature_tags/ || so the line has to start with a signature and it won't match on signature tags in the middle of other content on the same line.