When run on *.dtsi or *.dts files, the whitespace checks were skipped, while they are valid for DTS files. Hence stop skipping them. I ran checkpatch on all in-tree DTS files, and didn't notice any error or warning messages that are inappropriate for DTS files. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 31a731e06f50..ded90b6d7e17 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2338,7 +2338,7 @@ sub process { } # check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk - next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|s|S|pl|sh)$/); + next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|s|S|pl|sh|dtsi|dts)$/); #line length limit if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ && @@ -2399,7 +2399,7 @@ sub process { } # check we are in a valid source file C or perl if not then ignore this hunk - next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|pl)$/); + next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|pl|dtsi|dts)$/); # at the beginning of a line any tabs must come first and anything # more than 8 must use tabs. -- 1.9.1 -- 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