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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2018-04-30 13:46:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> | 2018-05-10 10:41:16 +0100 |
| commit | 1a6fad0c3bdeb320ef78dd8ce966e637ff6d356b (patch) | |
| tree | 9b2c644fd22196671ee330e2167eb95bd5fedb2a /scripts | |
| parent | 4be6131e32990bc27a2018b805210ed2c80cb5fc (diff) | |
checkpatch: reduce MAINTAINERS update message frequency
When files are being added/moved/deleted and a patch contains an update to
the MAINTAINERS file, assume it's to update the MAINTAINERS file correctly
and do not emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message.
Reported by many people.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180430124651.10340-6-stefanha@redhat.com
(cherry picked from e0d975b1b439c4fef58fbc306c542c94f48bb849)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 84bdf53af7..5506502cf4 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1390,6 +1390,12 @@ sub process { } } +# Check if MAINTAINERS is being updated. If so, there's probably no need to +# emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message on file add/move/delete + if ($line =~ /^\s*MAINTAINERS\s*\|/) { + $reported_maintainer_file = 1; + } + # Check for added, moved or deleted files if (!$reported_maintainer_file && !$in_commit_log && ($line =~ /^(?:new|deleted) file mode\s*\d+\s*$/ || |