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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2018-06-08 03:10:58 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-08 03:34:39 +0300
commit12c253abb9c9d8e01d9365fc8cbde4688731f401 (patch)
tree69fb79eb7685ce8f9b0ff2cf682be56ce5c27fae /scripts
parent09088a4047e2d1e749f8ceab1f39c5c0055032e5 (diff)
downloadlinux-12c253abb9c9d8e01d9365fc8cbde4688731f401.tar.xz
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')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl8
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+))? \@\@(.*)/) {