The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: improve patch recognition
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-improve-patch-recognition.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-patch-recognition.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-patch-recognition.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: improve patch recognition
There are mode change and rename only patches that are unrecognized
by checkpatch.
Recognize them.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/974a407e6fa18abd5a965da39cc68986a4c4f091.1526949367.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-patch-recognition scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-patch-recognition
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2375,6 +2375,14 @@ sub process {
my $rawline = $rawlines[$linenr - 1];
+# check if it's a mode change, rename or start of a patch
+ if (!$in_commit_log &&
+ ($line =~ /^ mode change [0-7]+ => [0-7]+ \S+\s*$/ ||
+ ($line =~ /^rename (?:from|to) \S+\s*$/ ||
+ $line =~ /^diff --git a\/[\w\/\.\_\-]+ b\/\S+\s*$/)) {
+ $is_patch = 1;
+ }
+
#extract the line range in the file after the patch is applied
if (!$in_commit_log &&
$line =~ /^\@\@ -\d+(?:,\d+)? \+(\d+)(,(\d+))? \@\@(.*)/) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
checkpatch-fix-macro-argument-precedence-test.patch
checkpatch-add-a-strict-test-for-structs-with-bool-member-definitions.patch
checkpatch-improve-patch-recognition.patch
get_maintainer-improve-patch-recognition.patch
mm-use-octal-not-symbolic-permissions.patch
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