Commit e0d975b1 authored Dec 10, 2014 by Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds Dec 10, 2014

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>

parent abb08a53

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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 =~ /^\sMAINTAINERS\s\\|/) {
		$reported_maintainer_file = 1;
		}

		# Check signature styles
		if (!$in_header_lines &&
		$line =~ /^(\s)([a-z0-9_-]+by:\|$signature_tags)(\s)(.*)/i) {