The patch titled checkpatch: suppress errors triggered by short patch has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-suppress-errors-triggered-by-short-patch.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/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: suppress errors triggered by short patch From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> When the last hunk of a patch is short it will trigger errors from checkpatch: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/local/bin/checkpatch.pl line 394. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/bin/checkpatch.pl line 397. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) Avoid touching beyond the last line. Reported by Julien Brunel. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Julien Brunel <brunel@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-suppress-errors-triggered-by-short-patch scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-suppress-errors-triggered-by-short-patch +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ sub ctx_statement_block { # context. if ($off >= $len) { for (; $remain > 0; $line++) { + last if (!defined $lines[$line]); next if ($lines[$line] =~ /^-/); $remain--; $loff = $len; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-hugetlbc-make-functions-static-use-null-rather-than-0.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