From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753209AbbFDLf2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:35:28 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0252.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.252]:49248 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752791AbbFDLew (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:34:52 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:800:960:973:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1539:1567:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3865:3867:4321:4605:5007:6261:10004:10400:10848:11026:11473:11658:11914:12517:12519:12555:13069:13311:13357:14394:21063:21080,0,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: self28_646a1b156360d X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1472 Message-ID: <1433417680.4861.159.camel@perches.com> Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files From: Joe Perches To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rasmus Villemoes , Andy Whitcroft , LKML Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 04:34:40 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11-0ubuntu3 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 Make an exception for the "Does not appear to be a unified-diff" error when scanning what appears to be git generated cover letters. Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes Signed-off-by: Joe Perches --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index c8032a0..da417b6 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5563,7 +5563,7 @@ 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"); }