On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 09:10 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 10:02 +0800, Wang YanQing wrote: > > According to submitting-patches.rst, 'Fixes:' tag has a little > > stricter condition about the one line summary: > > ... > > Do not split the tag across multiple > > lines, tags are exempt from the "wrap at 75 columns" rule in order to > > simplify > > parsing scripts > > ... > > > > And there is no 'Fixes:' tag format checker in checkpatch to check > > the commit id length too, so let's add dedicated checker to check > > these conditions for 'Fixes:' tag. > > There's no need to duplicate functionality like this. > Put this additional Fixes: logic into the existing block. > > (and don't take advise from Markus too seriously when it > comes to English grammar or wording. He is not an arbiter > of taste for this code) >
btw: I suggested this patch last year. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/40bfc40958fca6e2cc9b86101153aa0715fac4f7.ca...@perches.com/
