Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: suppress false long-line warining

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 05:39 +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> For DOS-formatted patches, extra ^M symbol at the end of line
> increases overall line length by 1.
> 
> It triggers unneeded warning if line is exactly 80 chars length.
> This patch fixes it.

It's may be simpler to just remove the \015 from the
input line

> Discovered in discussion to this patch:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/25/24
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 16 ++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ my $conststructsfile = "$D/const_structs.checkpatch";
>  my $typedefsfile = "";
>  my $color = "auto";
>  my $allow_c99_comments = 1;
> +my $is_dos_line;
>  
>  sub help {
>  	my ($exitcode) = @_;
> @@ -2731,7 +2732,9 @@ sub process {
>  		next if (!$hunk_line || $line =~ /^-/);
>  
>  #trailing whitespace
> +		$is_dos_line = 0;
>  		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\015$/) {

Maybe:

			$line =~ /\015$//;
			$length--;

and nothing else

> +			$is_dos_line = 1 if (!$fix_inplace);
>  			my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";
>  			if (ERROR("DOS_LINE_ENDINGS",
>  				  "DOS line endings\n" . $herevet) &&
> @@ -2884,7 +2887,12 @@ sub process {
>  # if LONG_LINE is ignored, the other 2 types are also ignored
>  #
>  
> -		if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $length > $max_line_length) {
> +		# If DOS line detected, additional ^M symbol at the end of
> +		# line increases line length, so increase max_line_length
> +		# accordingly.
> +		my $__max_line_length = $max_line_length + $is_dos_line;
> +
> +		if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $length > $__max_line_length) {
>  			my $msg_type = "LONG_LINE";
>  
>  			# Check the allowed long line types first
> @@ -2892,7 +2900,7 @@ sub process {
>  			# logging functions that end in a string that starts
>  			# before $max_line_length
>  			if ($line =~ /^\+\s*$logFunctions\s*\(\s*(?:(?:KERN_\S+\s*|[^"]*))?($String\s*(?:|,|\)\s*;)\s*)$/ &&
> -			    length(expand_tabs(substr($line, 1, length($line) - length($1) - 1))) <= $max_line_length) {
> +			    length(expand_tabs(substr($line, 1, length($line) - length($1) - 1))) <= $__max_line_length) {
>  				$msg_type = "";
>  
>  			# lines with only strings (w/ possible termination)
> @@ -2910,12 +2918,12 @@ sub process {
>  
>  			# a comment starts before $max_line_length
>  			} elsif ($line =~ /($;[\s$;]*)$/ &&
> -				 length(expand_tabs(substr($line, 1, length($line) - length($1) - 1))) <= $max_line_length) {
> +				 length(expand_tabs(substr($line, 1, length($line) - length($1) - 1))) <= $__max_line_length) {
>  				$msg_type = "LONG_LINE_COMMENT"
>  
>  			# a quoted string starts before $max_line_length
>  			} elsif ($sline =~ /\s*($String(?:\s*(?:\\|,\s*|\)\s*;\s*))?)$/ &&
> -				 length(expand_tabs(substr($line, 1, length($line) - length($1) - 1))) <= $max_line_length) {
> +				 length(expand_tabs(substr($line, 1, length($line) - length($1) - 1))) <= $__max_line_length) {
>  				$msg_type = "LONG_LINE_STRING"
>  			}
>