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; } _ -- 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