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Re: Checkpatch: False positive

From Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Checkpatch: False positive
Date 2015-07-16 17:40 +0200
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On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 16:25 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Hi Andy/Joe,
> 
> I got a warning today for my cover-letter, and it looked like a false
> positive. Please have a look, based of v4.2-rc2.
> -----------------------
> 0000-cover-letter.patch
> -----------------------
> WARNING: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)
> #31: 
>  arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c         | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------

There are a lot of other false positives for this test.

Maybe it's not worth checking for this condition and the
test should be removed as "fixing" it may not be feasible.



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Checkpatch: False positive Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-07-16 13:00 +0200
  Re: Checkpatch: False positive Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-07-16 17:40 +0200
    Re: Checkpatch: False positive Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> - 2015-07-16 17:50 +0200
      Re: Checkpatch: False positive Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2015-07-16 18:00 +0200
        Re: Checkpatch: False positive Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> - 2015-07-16 19:30 +0200

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