linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow URL >80 chars

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Date:   Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:39:55 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andreas Brauchli <a.brauchli@...mentarea.net>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow URL >80 chars

On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 11:07 +0100, Andreas Brauchli wrote:
> Is the patch acceptable if it only catches URL with protocol specifiers
> foo:// ? That would catch most cases and doesn't show false positives:
> $ git grep -E '://\S{75}.*' -- '*.[ch]'

Of course. but I suggest using a prefix like

\b[\w\.\+\-]+://

so the URL scheme is properly described.

It might be best if there was some generic mechanism
to identify possible URIs and not just URLs instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier