From: Joe Perches <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> (cherry picked from e0d975b1b439c4fef58fbc306c542c94f48bb849) Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 95ba64f3a5..1c20c683e8 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1389,6 +1389,12 @@ sub process { } } +# 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*\|/) { + $reported_maintainer_file = 1; + } + # Check for added, moved or deleted files if (!$reported_maintainer_file && !$in_commit_log && ($line =~ /^(?:new|deleted) file mode\s*\d+\s*$/ || -- 2.14.3
