The patch titled checkpatch: ensure we only apply checks to the lines within hunks has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-ensure-we-only-apply-checks-to-the-lines-within-hunks.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: ensure we only apply checks to the lines within hunks From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> We should only apply source checks to lines within hunks. Checks which are anchored in the context may falsly trigger in the commentory. Ensure they only match within valid hunk lines. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-ensure-we-only-apply-checks-to-the-lines-within-hunks scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-ensure-we-only-apply-checks-to-the-lines-within-hunks +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1128,6 +1128,7 @@ sub process { $linenr++; my $rawline = $rawlines[$linenr - 1]; + my $hunk_line = ($realcnt != 0); #extract the line range in the file after the patch is applied if ($line=~/^\@\@ -\d+(?:,\d+)? \+(\d+)(,(\d+))? \@\@/) { @@ -1238,8 +1239,8 @@ sub process { ERROR("Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8\n" . $hereptr); } -#ignore lines being removed - if ($line=~/^-/) {next;} +# ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed + next if (!$hunk_line || $line =~ /^-/); #trailing whitespace if ($line =~ /^\+.*\015/) { _ 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