Such scripts may have regular expressions, which would make the parser confusing. Also, they shouldn't hardcode filenames there, so skipping them is OK. While here, also don't check references on extensions used for file backup and patch rej/orig. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/documentation-file-ref-check | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check index 68083f2f1122..408b1dbe7884 100755 --- a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check +++ b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ while (<IN>) { next if ($f =~ m,^Next/,); # Makefiles and scripts contain nasty expressions to parse docs - next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/ || $f =~ m/\.sh$/); + next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/ || $f =~ m/\.(sh|py|pl|~|rej|org|orig)$/); # It doesn't make sense to parse hidden files next if ($f =~ m#/\.#); -- 2.48.1