The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: see if modified files are marked obsolete in MAINTAINERS
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-see-if-modified-files-are-marked-obsolete-in-maintainers.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-see-if-modified-files-are-marked-obsolete-in-maintainers.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-see-if-modified-files-are-marked-obsolete-in-maintainers.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: see if modified files are marked obsolete in MAINTAINERS
Use get_maintainer to check the status of individual files. If
"obsolete", suggest leaving the files alone.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ceaa510dc9d2df05ec4b456baed7bb1415550b3.1471889575.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-see-if-modified-files-are-marked-obsolete-in-maintainers scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-see-if-modified-files-are-marked-obsolete-in-maintainers
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -704,6 +704,16 @@ sub seed_camelcase_file {
}
}
+sub is_maintained_obsolete {
+ my ($filename) = @_;
+
+ return 0 if (!(-e "$root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl"));
+
+ my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback $filename 2>&1`;
+
+ return $status =~ /obsolete/i;
+}
+
my $camelcase_seeded = 0;
sub seed_camelcase_includes {
return if ($camelcase_seeded);
@@ -2289,6 +2299,10 @@ sub process {
}
if ($found_file) {
+ if (is_maintained_obsolete($realfile)) {
+ WARN("OBSOLETE",
+ "$realfile is marked as 'obsolete' in the MAINTAINERS hierarchy. No unnecessary modifications please.\n");
+ }
if ($realfile =~ m@^(?:drivers/net/|net/|drivers/staging/)@) {
$check = 1;
} else {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
get_maintainer-quiet-noisy-implicit-f-vcs_file_exists-checking.patch
seq-proc-modify-seq_put_decimal_ll-to-take-a-const-char-not-char.patch
meminfo-break-apart-a-very-long-seq_printf-with-ifdefs.patch
checkpatch-see-if-modified-files-are-marked-obsolete-in-maintainers.patch
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