From: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: avoid COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE warning for signature tags Currently checkpatch warns us for long lines in commits even for signature tag lines. Generally these lines exceed the 75-character limit because of: 1) long names and long email address 2) some comments on scoped review and acknowledgement, i.e., for a dedicated pointer on what was reported by the identity in 'Reported-by' 3) some additional comments on CC: stable@xxxxxxxx tags Exclude signature tag lines from this class of warning. There were 1896 COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE warnings in v5.6..v5.8 before this patch application and 1879 afterwards. A quick manual check found all the dropped warnings related to signature tags. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201116083754.10629-1-yashsri421@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-avoid-commit_log_long_line-warning-for-signature-tags +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2952,8 +2952,8 @@ 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); _