Message-ID: <1437060958.16262.28.camel@perches.com>
Subject: Re: Checkpatch: False positive
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:35:58 -0700
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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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