Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] Add Cortex-M33 and mps2-an505 board model

[Eric Blake]

On 02/22/2018 01:11 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> > ERROR: line over 90 characters
> > #54: FILE: hw/arm/mps2-tz.c:21:
> > + * 
> > https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/development-boards/fpga-prototyping-boards/mps2

> Does anybody better with perl and more familiar with checkpatch's
> internals feel like tweaking it to suppress the over-long-line
> complaint for URLs ?

This one-liner appears to do the trick; I'll submit it formally in 
another thread:

diff --git i/scripts/checkpatch.pl w/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 1b4b812e28f..0d3f753c665 100755
--- i/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ w/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1447,9 +1447,10 @@ sub process {
 # check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk
                next if ($realfile !~ /$SrcFile/);

-#90 column limit
+#90 column limit; exempt URLs, if no other words on line
                if ($line =~ /^\+/ &&
                    !($line =~ /^\+\s*"[^"]*"\s*(?:\s*|,|\)\s*;)\s*$/) &&
+                   !($rawline =~ /^[^[:alnum:]]*https?:\S*$/) &&
                    $length > 80)
                {
                        if ($length > 90) {


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