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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2014-12-10 15:51:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-10 17:41:12 -0800
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checkpatch: reduce MAINTAINERS update message frequency
When files are being added/moved/deleted and a patch contains an update to the MAINTAINERS file, assume it's to update the MAINTAINERS file correctly and do not emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message. Reported by many people. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 24d6702a95c2..41e7db451cc0 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2082,6 +2082,12 @@ sub process {
$in_commit_log = 0;
}
+# Check if MAINTAINERS is being updated. If so, there's probably no need to
+# emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message on file add/move/delete
+ if ($line =~ /^\s*MAINTAINERS\s*\|/) {
+ $reported_maintainer_file = 1;
+ }
+
# Check signature styles
if (!$in_header_lines &&
$line =~ /^(\s*)([a-z0-9_-]+by:|$signature_tags)(\s*)(.*)/i) {