The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add a fixer for missing newline at eof has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-add-a-fixer-for-missing-newline-at-eof.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add a fixer for missing newline at eof Remove the trailing error message from the fixed lines. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201017142546.28988-1-trix@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-a-fixer-for-missing-newline-at-eof +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3418,8 +3418,11 @@ sub process { # check for adding lines without a newline. if ($line =~ /^\+/ && defined $lines[$linenr] && $lines[$linenr] =~ /^\\ No newline at end of file/) { - WARN("MISSING_EOF_NEWLINE", - "adding a line without newline at end of file\n" . $herecurr); + if (WARN("MISSING_EOF_NEWLINE", + "adding a line without newline at end of file\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + fix_delete_line($fixlinenr+1, "No newline at end of file"); + } } # check we are in a valid source file C or perl if not then ignore this hunk _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from trix@xxxxxxxxxx are