linux-kernel - [patch] checkpatch: Fixes: tag lines are allowed to be long

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:07:36 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com,
	sparmaintainer@...sys.com, driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	Tim Sell <Timothy.Sell@...sys.com>
Subject: [patch] checkpatch: Fixes: tag lines are allowed to be long

A lot of the Fixes: tags go over the 75 character limit and that's ok.

Fixes: 2a076f40d8c9 ('checkpatch, SubmittingPatches: suggest line wrapping commit messages at 75 columns')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
The other common cause of false positives it Oops output but I don't
have an idea how to filter for that.

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 90e1edc..537973b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2310,7 +2310,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # Check for line lengths > 75 in commit log, warn once
 		if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_long_line &&
-		    length($line) > 75) {
+		    length($line) > 75 && !($line =~ /^Fixes:/)) {
 			WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE",
 			     "Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)\n" . $herecurr);
 			$commit_log_long_line = 1;
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