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@vger.org 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@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 041b82f..176ea2c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2952,8 +2952,8 @@
# 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);
