Commit 29ee1b0c67e0dd7dea8dd718e8326076bce5b6fe

Authored by Joe Perches
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 5a4e1fd37d

checkpatch: ignore email headers better

There are some patches created by git format-patch that when scanned by
checkpatch report errors on lines like

To:	address.tld

This is a checkpatch false positive.

Improve the logic a bit to ignore folded email headers to avoid emitting
these messages.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 2 deletions Side-by-side Diff

scripts/checkpatch.pl
... ... @@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@
1637 1637 my $signoff = 0;
1638 1638 my $is_patch = 0;
1639 1639  
1640   - my $in_header_lines = 1;
  1640 + my $in_header_lines = $file ? 0 : 1;
1641 1641 my $in_commit_log = 0; #Scanning lines before patch
1642 1642  
1643 1643 my $non_utf8_charset = 0;
... ... @@ -1993,7 +1993,8 @@
1993 1993 # Check if it's the start of a commit log
1994 1994 # (not a header line and we haven't seen the patch filename)
1995 1995 if ($in_header_lines && $realfile =~ /^$/ &&
1996   - $rawline !~ /^(commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:).+$/i) {
  1996 + !($rawline =~ /^\s+\S/ ||
  1997 + $rawline =~ /^(commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:).*$/i)) {
1997 1998 $in_header_lines = 0;
1998 1999 $in_commit_log = 1;
1999 2000 }