The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: fix long line messages about patch context has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-fix-long-line-messages-about-patch-context.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-fix-long-line-messages-about-patch-context.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-fix-long-line-messages-about-patch-context.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: fix long line messages about patch context Changes in ("checkpatch: categorize some long line length checks") now erroneously reports long line defects in patch context. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-long-line-messages-about-patch-context scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-long-line-messages-about-patch-context +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2608,7 +2608,7 @@ sub process { # if LONG_LINE is ignored, the other 2 types are also ignored # - if ($length > $max_line_length) { + if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $length > $max_line_length) { my $msg_type = "LONG_LINE"; # Check the allowed long line types first _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-neaten-do_error-ocfs2_error-and-ocfs2_abort.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch checkpatch-warn-on-bare-sha-1-commit-ids-in-commit-logs.patch checkpatch-fix-long-line-messages-about-patch-context.patch hfs-fix-b-tree-corruption-after-insertion-at-position-0.patch seq_file-provide-an-analogue-of-print_hex_dump.patch crypto-qat-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch parisc-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch zcrypt-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch kmemleak-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch wil6210-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch linux-next.patch fs-seq_file-convert-int-seq_vprint-seq_printf-etc-returns-to-void.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html