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authorStefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>2020-09-17 19:02:12 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-09-30 19:11:36 +0200
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checkpatch: avoid error on cover letter files
Running checkpatch on a directory that contains a cover letter reports this error: Checking /tmp/tmpbnngauy3/0000-cover-letter.patch... ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 lines checked Let's skip cover letter as it is already done in the Linux kernel commits 06330fc40e3f ("checkpatch: avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files") and a08ffbef4ab7 ("checkpatch: fix ignoring cover-letter logic"). Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200917170212.92672-1-sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 1ba8a38..ca4445f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3005,7 +3005,7 @@ sub process {
return 1;
}
- if (!$is_patch) {
+ if (!$is_patch && $filename !~ /cover-letter\.patch$/) {
ERROR("Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch\n");
}