[PATCH v5 22/22] checkpatch: reword long-line warn about commit-msg

Jim Cromie jim.cromie at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 23:35:13 UTC 2023


Reword the warning to complain about line length 1st, since thats
whats actually tested.

Cc: apw at canonical.com
Cc: joe at perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie at gmail.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f6b6b2a50dfe..31c55e3ece09 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3272,7 +3272,7 @@ sub process {
 					# A Fixes:, link or signature tag line
 		      $commit_log_possible_stack_dump)) {
 			WARN("COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE",
-			     "Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)\n" . $herecurr);
+			     "Prefer a maximum 75 chars per line (possible unwrapped commit description?)\n" . $herecurr);
 			$commit_log_long_line = 1;
 		}
 
-- 
2.41.0



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