The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: don't try to get maintained status when --no-tree is given has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-dont-try-to-get-maintained-status-when-no-tree-is-given.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-try-to-get-maintained-status-when-no-tree-is-given.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-try-to-get-maintained-status-when-no-tree-is-given.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: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: don't try to get maintained status when --no-tree is given Fixes the following warning: Use of uninitialized value $root in concatenation (.) or string at /path/to/checkpatch.pl line 764. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476719709-16668-1-git-send-email-jerome.forissier@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-dont-try-to-get-maintained-status-when-no-tree-is-given scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-dont-try-to-get-maintained-status-when-no-tree-is-given +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ sub seed_camelcase_file { sub is_maintained_obsolete { my ($filename) = @_; - return 0 if (!(-e "$root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl")); + return 0 if (!$tree || !(-e "$root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl")); my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback -f $filename 2>&1`; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jerome.forissier@xxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-dont-try-to-get-maintained-status-when-no-tree-is-given.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