[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] checkpatch: fix false positive for COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE with URLs

Aditya yashsri421 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 12:54:44 UTC 2020


On 16/12/20 6:05 pm, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 1:32 PM Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Currently checkpatch warns for long line in commit messages even for
>> URL lines.
>>
>> An evaluation over v4.13..v5.8 showed that out of ~11000 warnings for
>> this class, around 790 are due to the line containing link.
>>
>> E.g. running checkpatch on commit 3cde818cd02b ("ASoC: topology:
>> Consolidate how dtexts and dvalues are freed") reports this warning:
>>
>> WARNING: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)
>> https://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2019-January/144761.html
>>
>> Avoid giving users warning for character limit, instead suggest them to
>> prefix the URLs with "Link:"
>>
> 
> Looks good to me. This might be also a good one for a fix option.
> 

I agree. Should I add the fix in this patch itself?

Thanks
Aditya

> Lukas
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421 at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 10 ++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> index abd5a3d2e913..23da1f50fe6a 100755
>> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> @@ -3032,8 +3032,14 @@ sub process {
>>                       $line =~ /^\s*(?:Fixes:|Link:|$signature_tags)/i ||
>>                                         # A Fixes: or Link: line or signature tag line
>>                       $commit_log_possible_stack_dump)) {
>> -                       WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE",
>> -                            "Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)\n" . $herecurr);
>> +                       if ($line =~ /(?:http|https|ftp):\/\//) {
>> +                               WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE",
>> +                                    "Consider prefixing the URL with 'Link:'\n" . $herecurr);
>> +                       }
>> +                       else {
>> +                               WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE",
>> +                                    "Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)\n" . $herecurr);
>> +                       }
>>                         $commit_log_long_line = 1;
>>                 }
>>
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>



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