The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: enable whitespace checks for DTS files has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-enable-whitespace-checks-for-dts-files.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-enable-whitespace-checks-for-dts-files.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-enable-whitespace-checks-for-dts-files.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: enable whitespace checks for DTS files 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> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-enable-whitespace-checks-for-dts-files scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-enable-whitespace-checks-for-dts-files +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2340,7 +2340,7 @@ 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 =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ && @@ -2401,7 +2401,7 @@ sub process { } # check we are in a valid source file C or perl if not then ignore this hunk - next if ($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. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-enable-whitespace-checks-for-dts-files.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html