The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: reword long-line warning about commit-msg
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
checkpatch-reword-long-line-warning-about-commit-msg.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/checkpatch-reword-long-line-warning-about-commit-msg.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: reword long-line warning about commit-msg
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 21:30:19 -0600
Reword the warning to complain about line length 1st, since thats
whats actually tested.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808033019.21911-3-jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-reword-long-line-warning-about-commit-msg
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3272,7 +3272,7 @@ sub process {
# A Fixes:, link 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);
+ "Prefer a maximum 75 chars per line (possible unwrapped commit description?)\n" . $herecurr);
$commit_log_long_line = 1;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx are
checkpatch-special-case-extern-struct-in-c.patch
checkpatch-reword-long-line-warning-about-commit-msg.patch
