Currently checkpatch warns us for long lines in commits even for
signature tag lines.
Generally these lines exceed the 75-character limit because of:
1) long names and long email address
2) some comments on scoped review and acknowledgement, i.e., for a
dedicated pointer on what was reported by the identity in 'Reported-by'
3) some additional comments on CC: sta...@vger.org tags
Exclude signature tag lines from this class of warning.
There were 1896 COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE warnings in v5.6..v5.8 before this
patch application and 1879 afterwards.
A quick manual check found all the dropped warnings related to signature
tags.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri...@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
modify commit message: remove specific commit example, add cause of the warning
instead
Changes in v3:
modify commit message: minor english fix; remove difference count, add relative
counts instead
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index ac7e5ac80b58..f2369ac29d50 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2961,8 +2961,8 @@ sub process {
# file delta changes
$line =~ /^\s*(?:[\w\.\-]+\/)++[\w\.\-]+:/ ||
# filename then :
- $line =~ /^\s*(?:Fixes:|Link:)/i ||
- # A Fixes: or Link: line
+ $line =~ /^\s*(?:Fixes:|Link:|$signature_tags)/i ||
+ # A Fixes: or Link: line or signature
tag line
$commit_log_possible_stack_dump)) {
WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE",
"Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a
maximum 75 chars per line)\n" . $herecurr);
--
2.17.1
