From a82603a8325f89ec53d4c3e249a2e831b747a69d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Jeffery Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:46:37 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't emit unified-diff error for rename-only patches I generated a patch with `git format-patch` which checkpatch thinks is invalid: $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl lpc-dt/0006-mfd-dt-Move-syscon-bindings-to-syscon-subdirectory.patch WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating? Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/aspeed-scu.txt | 0 ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch total: 1 errors, 1 warnings, 0 lines checked NOTE: For some of the reported defects, checkpatch may be able to mechanically convert to the typical style using --fix or --fix-inplace. lpc-dt/0006-mfd-dt-Move-syscon-bindings-to-syscon-subdirectory.patch has style problems, please review. NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. The patch in question was all renames with no edits, giving 100% similarity and thus no diff markers. Set '$is_patch = 1;' in the add/remove/rename detection to avoid generating spurious warnings. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161205232224.22685-1-andrew@aj.id.au Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery Acked-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 7997300d5d30..ac5656ef2aec 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2589,6 +2589,7 @@ sub process { $line =~ /^rename (?:from|to) [\w\/\.\-]+\s*$/ || ($line =~ /\{\s*([\w\/\.\-]*)\s*\=\>\s*([\w\/\.\-]*)\s*\}/ && (defined($1) || defined($2))))) { + $is_patch = 1; $reported_maintainer_file = 1; WARN("FILE_PATH_CHANGES", "added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?\n" . $herecurr); -- GitLab