From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760880AbaJ3Ssz (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:48:55 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0191.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.191]:60612 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758974AbaJ3Ssy (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:48:54 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:800:960:973:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1540:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2828:2895:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3865:3867:3868:3871:3872:4321:5007:6261:10004:10400:10848:11026:11658:11914:12043:12438:12517:12519:12555:13069:13095:13221:13229:13311:13357:14394:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: size57_87c6702c0c840 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1622 Message-ID: <1414694931.22099.3.camel@perches.com> Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Reduce MAINTAINERS update message frequency From: Joe Perches To: Andrew Morton Cc: LKML Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:48:51 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.7-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 24d6702..41e7db4 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -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 =~ /^\s*MAINTAINERS\s*\|/) { + $reported_maintainer_file = 1; + } + # Check signature styles if (!$in_header_lines && $line =~ /^(\s*)([a-z0-9_-]+by:|$signature_tags)(\s*)(.*)/i) {