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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2021-10-19 08:42:50 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2021-10-26 09:42:28 -0600
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scripts: documentation-file-ref-check: ignore hidden files
There's a warning there from a .gitignore file: tools/perf/.gitignore: Documentation/doc.dep This is not really a cross-reference type of warning, so no need to report it. In a matter of fact, it doesn't make sense at all to even parse hidden files, as some text editors may create such files for their own usage. So, just ignore everything that matches this pattern: /\.* Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dd0125a931b4fecf8fab6be8aa527faa18f78e43.1634629094.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
index 7187ea5e5149..6865d8e63d5c 100755
--- a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
+++ b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ while (<IN>) {
# Makefiles and scripts contain nasty expressions to parse docs
next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/ || $f =~ m/\.sh$/);
+ # It doesn't make sense to parse hidden files
+ next if ($f =~ m#/\.#);
+
# Skip this script
next if ($f eq $scriptname);