linux-kernel - [BUG] checkpatch: false positive unwrapped commit description

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Date:   Sat, 20 Feb 2021 07:28:40 +0100
From:   Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
Subject: [BUG] checkpatch: false positive unwrapped commit description

The next line leads to a false positive
Possible unwrapped commit description
(prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)

element type is ‘struct reg_info‘, not ‘u32‘ {aka ‘unsigned int‘}

+++++++++|+++++++++|+++++++++|+++++++++|+++++++++|+++++++++|+++++++++|
        10        20        30        40        50        60        70

Unicode code point 0x2018 (‘) is counted as three characters
instead of one.

This code point is used in the GCC 11 warning sizeof-array-div.
Citing the warning verbatim lead to the observation.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
---
 foo.txt | 0
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 foo.txt

diff --git a/foo.txt b/foo.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
--
2.30.0