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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2018-06-07 17:10:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-07 17:34:39 -0700 |
| commit | 12c253abb9c9d8e01d9365fc8cbde4688731f401 (patch) | |
| tree | 69fb79eb7685ce8f9b0ff2cf682be56ce5c27fae /scripts/checkpatch.pl | |
| parent | 09088a4047e2d1e749f8ceab1f39c5c0055032e5 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-12c253abb9c9d8e01d9365fc8cbde4688731f401.tar.gz lwn-12c253abb9c9d8e01d9365fc8cbde4688731f401.zip | |
checkpatch: improve patch recognition
There are mode change and rename only patches that are unrecognized by
checkpatch.
Recognize them.
[joe@perches.com: fix missing close parenthesis]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/af44c893f6973393f2a5b11f1a8e5cd4c8bbbba5.camel@perches.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/974a407e6fa18abd5a965da39cc68986a4c4f091.1526949367.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index dfd265e036f3..e3b7362b0ee4 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2377,6 +2377,14 @@ sub process { my $rawline = $rawlines[$linenr - 1]; +# check if it's a mode change, rename or start of a patch + if (!$in_commit_log && + ($line =~ /^ mode change [0-7]+ => [0-7]+ \S+\s*$/ || + ($line =~ /^rename (?:from|to) \S+\s*$/ || + $line =~ /^diff --git a\/[\w\/\.\_\-]+ b\/\S+\s*$/))) { + $is_patch = 1; + } + #extract the line range in the file after the patch is applied if (!$in_commit_log && $line =~ /^\@\@ -\d+(?:,\d+)? \+(\d+)(,(\d+))? \@\@(.*)/) { |