From: Andreas Brauchli <a.brauchli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: allow long lines containing URL Allow lines with URL to exceed the 80 char limit for improved interaction in adaption to ongoing but undocumented practice. $ git grep -E '://\S{77}.*' -- '*.[ch]' As per RFC3986 [1], the URL format allows for alphanum, +, - and . characters in the scheme before the separator :// as long as it starts with a letter (e.g. https, git, f.-+). Recognition of URIs without more context information is prone to false positives and thus currently left out of the heuristics. $rawline is used in the check as comments are removed from $line. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.1 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1511355432.12667.15.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andreas Brauchli <andreas.brauchli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-long-lines-containing-url scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-long-lines-containing-url +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2875,6 +2875,7 @@ sub process { # logging functions like pr_info that end in a string # lines with a single string # #defines that are a single string +# lines with an RFC3986 like URL # # There are 3 different line length message types: # LONG_LINE_COMMENT a comment starts before but extends beyond $max_line_length @@ -2906,6 +2907,10 @@ sub process { $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:\w+)?\s*DEFINE_PER_CPU/) { $msg_type = ""; + # URL ($rawline is used in case the URL is in a comment) + } elsif ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\b[a-z][\w\.\+\-]*:\/\/\S+/i) { + $msg_type = ""; + # Otherwise set the alternate message types # a comment starts before $max_line_length _ -- 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