The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: exclude drivers/staging from if with unnecessary parentheses test
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-exclude-drivers-staging-from-if-with-unnecessary-parentheses-test.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-exclude-drivers-staging-from-if-with-unnecessary-parentheses-test.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-exclude-drivers-staging-from-if-with-unnecessary-parentheses-test.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: exclude drivers/staging from if with unnecessary parentheses test
Greg KH doesn't like this test so exclude the staging directory from the
implied --strict only test unless --strict is actually used on the
command-line.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515704034.9619.165.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-exclude-drivers-staging-from-if-with-unnecessary-parentheses-test scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-exclude-drivers-staging-from-if-with-unnecessary-parentheses-test
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4526,7 +4526,9 @@ sub process {
}
# check for unnecessary parentheses around comparisons in if uses
- if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && defined($stat) &&
+# when !drivers/staging or command-line uses --strict
+ if (($realfile !~ m@^(?:drivers/staging/)@ || $check_orig) &&
+ $^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && defined($stat) &&
$stat =~ /(^.\s*if\s*($balanced_parens))/) {
my $if_stat = $1;
my $test = substr($2, 1, -1);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
checkpatch-ignore-some-octal-permissions-of-0.patch
checkpatch-improve-quoted-string-and-line-continuation-test.patch
checkpatch-add-a-few-device_attr-style-tests.patch
checkpatch-improve-the-tabstop-test-to-include-declarations.patch
checkpatch-exclude-drivers-staging-from-if-with-unnecessary-parentheses-test.patch
checkpatch-avoid-some-false-positives-for-tabstop-declaration-test.patch
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