Re: checkpatch warnings for references to earlier commits
From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Feb 22 2021 - 17:16:12 EST
On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 13:14 -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Would it be possible to teach checkpatch not to warn about
> canonical references to earlier commits? E.g.
>
> WARNING: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)
> #7:
> commit e80634a75aba ("EDAC, skx: Retrieve and print retry_rd_err_log registers")
No, not really. It's possible and typical for commit descriptions
to span multiple lines. checkpatch accepts that.