For a printout to happen, all types must be set to "show". So, AND is needed for the flags, not OR, if we want to ignore something. Fixes: 47e0c88b37a5 ("checkpatch: categorize some long line length checks") Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Change since v1: * removed now unneeded pair of braces (Thanks, Geert!) * reworded commit message scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 2b812210b412..375749e0a174 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3858,7 +3858,7 @@ sub process { } if ($msg_type ne "" && - (show_type("LONG_LINE") || show_type($msg_type))) { + show_type("LONG_LINE") && show_type($msg_type)) { my $msg_level = \&WARN; $msg_level = \&CHK if ($file); &{$msg_level}($msg_type, -- 2.43.0