The patch titled checkpatch: check line endings in text format files has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-check-line-endings-in-text-format-files.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: check line endings in text format files From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Firmware may be included in the kernel as .ihex files. These are inherantly text, but not source. The line ending checks are applicable to these kinds of file, allow just these checks to apply to all files. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-check-line-endings-in-text-format-files scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-check-line-endings-in-text-format-files +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1241,9 +1241,6 @@ sub process { #ignore lines being removed if ($line=~/^-/) {next;} -# check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk - next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|s|S|pl|sh)$/); - #trailing whitespace if ($line =~ /^\+.*\015/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; @@ -1253,6 +1250,10 @@ sub process { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; ERROR("trailing whitespace\n" . $herevet); } + +# check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk + next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|s|S|pl|sh)$/); + #80 column limit if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ && $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ && _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-make-setup_zone_migrate_reserve-aware-of-overlapping-nodes.patch mm-hugetlbc-make-functions-static-use-null-rather-than-0.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 checkpatch-case-default-checks-should-only-check-changed-lines.patch checkpatch-suppress-errors-triggered-by-short-patch.patch checkpatch-handle-comment-quote-nesting-correctly.patch checkpatch-check-line-endings-in-text-format-files.patch checkpatch-suspect-indent-count-condition-lines-correctly.patch checkpatch-ensure-we-only-apply-checks-to-the-lines-within-hunks.patch checkpatch-version-023.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