If one tries to run this script under linux-next, it would hit lots of false-positives, due to the tree merges that are stored under the Next/ directory. So, add a logic to ignore it. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/documentation-file-ref-check | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check index ad9db6821824..bd7d9ab63941 100755 --- a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check +++ b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check @@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ while (<IN>) { my $f = $1; my $ln = $2; + # On linux-next, discard the Next/ directory + next if ($f =~ m,^Next/,); + # Makefiles and scripts contain nasty expressions to parse docs next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/ || $f =~ m/\.sh$/); -- 2.20.1