Long subjects should be avoided, so the suite must trigger an assertion if length is > MAX. MAX should be an general or open-embedded standard (80?)
This check is already implemented on the patchtest-oe suite. The max length set is 80. There are two ways to validate this test: 1. Manual 1.1 Create a patch with git-format-patch and on the created patch, increase the message summary length to more that 80 chars. 1.2 clone patchtest and patchtest-oe (right now these are not public), follow patchtest-oe setup instructions 1.3 run the following cmd: cat $newpatch | patchtest - --test-dir $path-to-patchtest-oe/tests/mbox/subject 1.4 expected output: you should see the FAIL on the particular testid 2. Selftest 2.1 follow step 1.2, the run the following cmd: cd $patchtest-oe/selftest; ./selftest 2.2 expected output: no output should be seen on console