The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: warn when a MAINTAINERS entry isn't [A-Z]:\t
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-warn-when-a-maintainers-entry-isnt-t.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-warn-when-a-maintainers-entry-isnt-t.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-warn-when-a-maintainers-entry-isnt-t.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: warn when a MAINTAINERS entry isn't [A-Z]:\t
For consistency, MAINTAINERS entries should be an upper case letter, then
a colon, then a tab, then the value.
Warn when an entry doesn't have this form. --fix it too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9aaaf03ec10adf3888b5e98dd2176b7fe9b5fad8.1496343345.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-warn-when-a-maintainers-entry-isnt-t scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-warn-when-a-maintainers-entry-isnt-t
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2775,6 +2775,17 @@ sub process {
#print "is_start<$is_start> is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n";
}
+# check for MAINTAINERS entries that don't have the right form
+ if ($realfile =~ /^MAINTAINERS$/ &&
+ $rawline =~ /^\+[A-Z]:/ &&
+ $rawline !~ /^\+[A-Z]:\t\S/) {
+ if (WARN("MAINTAINERS_STYLE",
+ "MAINTAINERS entries use one tab after TYPE:\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+[A-Z]):\s*/$1:\t/;
+ }
+ }
+
# discourage the use of boolean for type definition attributes of Kconfig options
if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ &&
$line =~ /^\+\s*\bboolean\b/) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
checkpatch-improve-the-unnecessary-oom-message-test.patch
checkpatch-warn-when-a-maintainers-entry-isnt-t.patch
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