The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: speed up checking for filenames in sections marked obsolete has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-speed-up-checking-for-filenames-in-sections-marked-obsolete.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-speed-up-checking-for-filenames-in-sections-marked-obsolete.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-speed-up-checking-for-filenames-in-sections-marked-obsolete.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: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: speed up checking for filenames in sections marked obsolete Adding -f to the get_maintainer.pl invocation means git isn't invoked by get_maintainer.pl for known filenames. This reduces the overall time to run checkpatch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/22991e3a295aeb399b43af0478b6e5809106ccee.1472684066.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-speed-up-checking-for-filenames-in-sections-marked-obsolete scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-speed-up-checking-for-filenames-in-sections-marked-obsolete +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ sub is_maintained_obsolete { 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`; + my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback -f $filename 2>&1`; return $status =~ /obsolete/i; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are wd719x-remove-last-declaration-using-define_pci_device_table.patch treewide-remove-references-to-the-now-unnecessary-define_pci_device_table.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 spellingtxt-modeled-is-spelt-correctly.patch checkpatch-see-if-modified-files-are-marked-obsolete-in-maintainers.patch checkpatch-look-for-symbolic-permissions-and-suggest-octal-instead.patch checkpatch-test-multiple-line-block-comment-alignment.patch checkpatch-dont-test-for-prefer-ether_addr_foo.patch checkpatch-externalize-the-structs-that-should-be-const.patch const_structscheckpatch-add-frequently-used-from-julia-lawalls-list.patch checkpatch-speed-up-checking-for-filenames-in-sections-marked-obsolete.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