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@@ -601,6 +601,11 @@ Commit message
See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#describe-your-changes
+ **BAD_COMMIT_SEPARATOR**
+ The commit separator is a single line with 3 dashes.
+ The regex match is '^---$'
+ Lines that start with 3 dashes and have more content on the same line
+ may confuse tools that apply patches.
Comparison style
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@@ -753,7 +758,7 @@ Macros, Attributes and Symbols
sizeof(foo)/sizeof(foo[0]) for finding number of elements in an
array.
- The macro is defined in include/linux/kernel.h::
+ The macro is defined in include/linux/array_size.h::
#define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0]))