From b4749e96a4a872c2496602566f205547c4e3c950 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:24:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix long line messages about patch context
Changes in ("checkpatch: categorize some long line length checks")
now erroneously reports long line defects in patch context.
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 90e1edc8dd42f..d5c8e9a3a73cf 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2599,7 +2599,7 @@ sub process {
# if LONG_LINE is ignored, the other 2 types are also ignored
#
- if ($length > $max_line_length) {
+ if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $length > $max_line_length) {
my $msg_type = "LONG_LINE";
# Check the allowed long line types first
--
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