On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 07:27:15 -0800 Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ...and use a commit with an obnoxiously long summary in the example to > make it abundantly clear that keeping the tag on a single line takes > priority over wrapping at 75 columns. Without the explicit exemption, > one might assume splitting the tag is acceptable, even encouraged, e.g. > due to being conditioned by checkpatch's line length warning. > > Per Stephen's scripts[1] and implied by commit bf4daf12a9fb ("checkpatch: > avoid some commit message long line warnings"), splitting the 'Fixes:' > tag across multiple lines is a no-no, presumably because parsing multi- > line tags is unnecessarily painful. > > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190216183433.71b7cfa7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> Applied, thanks. jon