Commit 06330fc4 authored Jun 25, 2015 by Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 25, 2015

checkpatch: avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files



Make an exception for the "Does not appear to be a unified-diff" error
when scanning what appears to be git generated cover letters.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent f1a63678

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -5614,7 +5614,7 @@ sub process {
		exit(0);
		}

		if (!$is_patch) {
		if (!$is_patch && $file !~ /cover-letter\.patch$/) {
		ERROR("NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF",
		"Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch\n");
		}