[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3] checkpatch: avoid COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE warning for signature tags

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 14:07 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> Currently checkpatch warns us for long lines in commits even for
> signature tag lines.

Thanks Aditya.

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -2961,8 +2961,8 @@ sub process {
>  					# file delta changes
>  		      $line =~ /^\s*(?:[\w\.\-]+\/)++[\w\.\-]+:/ ||
>  					# filename then :
> -		      $line =~ /^\s*(?:Fixes:|Link:)/i ||
> -					# A Fixes: or Link: line
> +		      $line =~ /^\s*(?:Fixes:|Link:|$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);