With a compatible string like compatible = "foo"; checkpatch will currently try to find "foo" in vendor-prefixes.txt, which is wrong since the vendor prefix is empty in this specific case. Skip the vendor test if the compatible is not like compatible = "vendor,something"; Signed-off-by: Florian Vaussard <florian.vaussard@xxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index e304e77..96f10ba 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2055,10 +2055,10 @@ sub process { "DT compatible string \"$compat\" appears un-documented -- check $dt_path\n" . $herecurr); } - my $vendor = $compat; my $vendor_path = $dt_path . "vendor-prefixes.txt"; next if (! -f $vendor_path); - $vendor =~ s/^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)\,.*/$1/; + next if $compat !~ /^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)\,/; + my $vendor = $1; `grep -Eq "$vendor" $vendor_path`; if ( $? >> 8 ) { WARN("UNDOCUMENTED_DT_STRING", -- 1.8.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html