Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Flag spam header (X-Spam-Report) to prevent spurious warnings | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:07:56 -0700 |
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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.
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