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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: "John 'Warthog9' Hawley (VMware)" <warthog9@eaglescrag.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Flag spam header (X-Spam-Report) to prevent spurious warnings
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:07:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1490249276.2041.19.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170323060133.GD17578@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 23:01 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> I still haven't figured out why we test for this specific set of patterns. Why
> is a line that starts with a space and ends with a newline considered still
> in_header_lines. Or more specifically, why aren't we just testing for an empty
> line (RFC 5322 Section 2.1, defining the separation of headers and the body).

Because of the From: and commit: lines sometimes used to describe
patches sent on behalf of others.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-23  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-21 16:30 [PATCH] checkpatch: Flag spam header (X-Spam-Report) to prevent spurious warnings John 'Warthog9' Hawley (VMware)
2017-03-21 18:31 ` Joe Perches
2017-03-22 15:25   ` Darren Hart
2017-03-22 18:17     ` Joe Perches
2017-03-23  6:01       ` Darren Hart
2017-03-23  6:07         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-03-24 20:14   ` John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2017-03-24 20:19     ` John 'Warthog9' Hawley

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