The patch titled checkpatch: include/asm checks should be anchored has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-include-asm-checks-should-be-anchored.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: include/asm checks should be anchored From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> It is possible to have other include/asm paths within the tree which are not subject to the do not edit checks. Ignore those. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-include-asm-checks-should-be-anchored scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-include-asm-checks-should-be-anchored +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ sub process { $realfile = $1; $realfile =~ s@^[^/]*/@@; - if ($realfile =~ m@include/asm/@) { + if ($realfile =~ m@^include/asm/@) { ERROR("do not modify files in include/asm, change architecture specific files in include/asm-<architecture>\n" . "$here$rawline\n"); } next; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are hugetlbfs-allocate-structures-for-reservation-tracking-outside-of-spinlocks.patch allocate-structures-for-reservation-tracking-in-hugetlbfs-outside-of-spinlocks-v2.patch checkpatch-square-brackets-exemption-for-array-slices-in-braces.patch checkpatch-values-double-ampersand-may-be-unary.patch checkpatch-conditional-indent-labels-have-different-indent-rules.patch checkpatch-switch-indent-allow-plain-return.patch checkpatch-add-tests-for-the-attribute-matcher.patch checkpatch-____cacheline_aligned-et-al-are-modifiers.patch checkpatch-complex-macros-fix-up-extension-handling.patch checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block.patch checkpatch-include-asm-checks-should-be-anchored.patch checkpatch-reduce-warnings-for-include-of-asm-fooh-to-check-from-arch-barc.patch checkpatch-report-any-absolute-references-to-kernel-source-files.patch checkpatch-report-the-real-first-line-of-all-suspect-indents.patch checkpatch-suspect-indent-skip-over-preprocessor-label-and-blank-lines.patch checkpatch-%lx-tests-should-hand-%%-as-a-literal.patch checkpatch-report-the-correct-lines-for-single-statement-blocks.patch checkpatch-perform-indent-checks-on-perl.patch checkpatch-version-022.patch page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html