On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 14:07 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > A lot of the Fixes: tags go over the 75 character limit and that's ok. > > Fixes: 2a076f40d8c9 ('checkpatch, SubmittingPatches: suggest line wrapping commit messages at 75 columns') > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > The other common cause of false positives it Oops output but I don't > have an idea how to filter for that. > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > index 90e1edc..537973b 100755[0-9a-f > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > @@ -2310,7 +2310,7 @@ sub process { > > # Check for line lengths > 75 in commit log, warn once > if ($in_commit_log && !$commit_log_long_line && > - length($line) > 75) { > + length($line) > 75 && !($line =~ /^Fixes:/)) { > WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE", > "Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)\n" . $herecurr); > $commit_log_long_line = 1; Maybe some combination of: ^\s*> ^.*\[\s*timestamp\s*\] ^\s*\[\<0-9a-f\>\] oops: BUG: Unable to Unable to Followed by any blank line to reset _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel