Do not die, but only warn when scripts/get_maintainer.pl is asked to
retrieve information about a missing file.
This allows scripts/checkpatch.pl to query MAINTAINERS while processing
patches which are removing files.
For example take:
commit ebb0130dad75 ("dt-bindings: mailbox: convert bcm2835-mbox bindings to YAML")
It removes a file (and recreates it in another format, but that's
besides the point) which belongs to four subsystems.
This will work OK:
scripts/get_maintainer.pl \
0001-dt-bindings-mailbox-convert-bcm2835-mbox-bindings-to.patch
But if we try to give the file being removed to get_maintainer.pl
directly:
scripts/get_maintainer.pl \
-f Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/brcm,bcm2835-mbox.txt
It will abort with the following message:
scripts/get_maintainer.pl: file
'Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/brcm,bcm2835-mbox.txt'
not found
Even though the state of the source tree we're running this on is
*exactly* the same.
This commit downgrades that error to a warning.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Kondrashov <Nikolai.Kondrashov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index ee1aed7e090ca..35e888e3c1889 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -542,7 +542,11 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
if ((-d $file)) {
$file =~ s@([^/])$@$1/@;
} elsif (!(-f $file)) {
- die "$P: file '${file}' not found\n";
+ if ($from_filename) {
+ warn "$P: file '${file}' not found\n";
+ } else {
+ die "$P: file '${file}' not found\n";
+ }
}
}
if ($from_filename && (vcs_exists() && !vcs_file_exists($file))) {
--
2.43.0
