linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch warnings for references to earlier commits

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Message-ID: <f5d688e872eb838fa5851802a4ea1ef1e047177b.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:15:21 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch warnings for references to earlier commits

On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 13:14 -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Would it be possible to teach checkpatch not to warn about
> canonical references to earlier commits?  E.g.
> 
> WARNING: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)
> #7:
> commit e80634a75aba ("EDAC, skx: Retrieve and print retry_rd_err_log registers")

No, not really.  It's possible and typical for commit descriptions
to span multiple lines.  checkpatch accepts that.