The patch titled Subject: checkpatch-warn-on-self-assignments-checkpatch-fixes has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-warn-on-self-assignments-checkpatch-fixes.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-warn-on-self-assignments-checkpatch-fixes.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-warn-on-self-assignments-checkpatch-fixes.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch-warn-on-self-assignments-checkpatch-fixes WARNING: Unknown commit id '63a0895d960a', maybe rebased or not pulled? #4: The uninitialized_var() macro was removed recently via commit 63a0895d960a WARNING: 'assigments' may be misspelled - perhaps 'assignments'? #30: FILE: scripts/checkpatch.pl:3904: +# check for self assigments used to avoid compiler warnings total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 17 lines checked NOTE: For some of the reported defects, checkpatch may be able to mechanically convert to the typical style using --fix or --fix-inplace. ./patches/checkpatch-warn-on-self-assignments.patch has style problems, please review. NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-warn-on-self-assignments-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3901,7 +3901,7 @@ sub process { #ignore lines not being added next if ($line =~ /^[^\+]/); -# check for self assigments used to avoid compiler warnings +# check for self assignments used to avoid compiler warnings # e.g.: int foo = foo, *bar = NULL; # struct foo bar = *(&(bar)); if ($line =~ /^\+\s*(?:$Declare)?([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*)\s*=/) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm.patch mm-memory_hotplug-introduce-default-phys_to_target_node-implementation-fix.patch device-dax-make-align-a-per-device-property-fix.patch powerpc-mm-move-setting-pte-specific-flags-to-pfn_pte-fix.patch mm-gup-dont-permit-users-to-call-get_user_pages-with-foll_longterm-fix.patch mm-page_allocc-clean-code-by-removing-unnecessary-initialization-fix.patch memblock-make-memblock_debug-and-related-functionality-private-fix.patch arch-drivers-replace-for_each_membock-with-for_each_mem_range-fix.patch xarray-add-xa_get_order-fix.patch xarray-add-xas_split-fix.patch mmhwpoison-refactor-soft_offline_huge_page-and-__soft_offline_page-fix.patch mmhwpoison-drop-unneeded-pcplist-draining-fix.patch mm-vmstat-fix-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-generating-false-warnings-fix-2.patch mm-memory_hotplug-simplify-page-offlining-fix.patch checkpatch-warn-on-self-assignments-checkpatch-fixes.patch fs-binfmt_elf-use-pt_load-p_align-values-for-suitable-start-address-fix.patch linux-next-rejects.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch arch-x86-makefile-use-config_shell.patch mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix-fix.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch