The patch titled
checkpatch: report any absolute references to kernel source files
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
checkpatch-report-any-absolute-references-to-kernel-source-files.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: checkpatch: report any absolute references to kernel source files
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Absolute references to kernel source files are generally only useful
locally to the originator of the patch. Check for any such references and
report them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-report-any-absolute-references-to-kernel-source-files scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-report-any-absolute-references-to-kernel-source-files
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -958,6 +958,33 @@ sub CHK {
}
}
+sub check_absolute_file {
+ my ($absolute, $herecurr) = @_;
+ my $file = $absolute;
+
+ ##print "absolute<$absolute>\n";
+
+ # See if any suffix of this path is a path within the tree.
+ while ($file =~ s@^[^/]*/@@) {
+ if (-f "$root/$file") {
+ ##print "file<$file>\n";
+ last;
+ }
+ }
+ if (! -f _) {
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ # It is, so see if the prefix is acceptable.
+ my $prefix = $absolute;
+ substr($prefix, -length($file)) = '';
+
+ ##print "prefix<$prefix>\n";
+ if ($prefix ne ".../") {
+ WARN("use relative pathname instead of absolute in changelog text\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+}
+
sub process {
my $filename = shift;
@@ -1168,6 +1195,20 @@ sub process {
$herecurr) if (!$emitted_corrupt++);
}
+# Check for absolute kernel paths.
+ if ($tree) {
+ while ($line =~ m{(?:^|\s)(/\S*)}g) {
+ my $file = $1;
+
+ if ($file =~ m{^(.*?)(?::\d+)+:?$} &&
+ check_absolute_file($1, $herecurr)) {
+ #
+ } else {
+ check_absolute_file($file, $herecurr);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
# UTF-8 regex found at http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.en.php
if (($realfile =~ /^$/ || $line =~ /^\+/) &&
$rawline !~ m/^$UTF8*$/) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
mm-hugetlbc-make-functions-static-use-null-rather-than-0.patch
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