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Message-ID: <5cfbdb015154919d24967aec4cec5890760c1dd5.camel@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:02:13 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
akpm@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: tolerate long lines w/o spaces
On Sat, 2024-02-03 at 12:55 -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:
> checkpatch complains about long lines (>75 chars), but allows a few
> exceptions:
>
> file delta changes
> filename then :
> A Fixes:, link or signature tag line
>
> Add another exception, to allow a long "word" without whitespace. The
> regex allows spaces in 1st 10 chars, so it allows the following [1],
> which current checkpatch carps about.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200825153338.17061-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com
>
> Dummy-tag: test-generic-tag-format-with-url-length-bla-bla-jeez-dont-give-up-now-there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 9c4c4a61bc83..dc17c6da3af2 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3271,6 +3271,8 @@ sub process {
> # filename then :
> $line =~ /^\s*(?:Fixes:|$link_tags_search|$signature_tags)/i ||
> # A Fixes:, link or signature tag line
> + $line =~ /^.{10}\S+$/ ||
> + # a long single "word" without whitespace
Perhaps better would be
$line =! /^(?:\S+\s+)?\S+$/ ||
> $commit_log_possible_stack_dump)) {
> WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE",
> "Prefer a maximum 75 chars per line (possible unwrapped commit description?)\n" . $herecurr);
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