Commit 12c253ab authored Jun 07, 2018 by Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 07, 2018

checkpatch: improve patch recognition

There are mode change and rename only patches that are unrecognized by
checkpatch.

Recognize them.

[joe@perches.com: fix missing close parenthesis]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/af44c893f6973393f2a5b11f1a8e5cd4c8bbbba5.camel@perches.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/974a407e6fa18abd5a965da39cc68986a4c4f091.1526949367.git.joe@perches.com


Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 09088a40

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+8 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2377,6 +2377,14 @@ sub process {

		my $rawline = $rawlines[$linenr - 1];

		# check if it's a mode change, rename or start of a patch
		if (!$in_commit_log &&
		($line =~ /^ mode change [0-7]+ => [0-7]+ \S+\s*$/ \|\|
		($line =~ /^rename (?:from\|to) \S+\s*$/ \|\|
		$line =~ /^diff --git a\/[\w\/\.\_\-]+ b\/\S+\s*$/))) {
		$is_patch = 1;
		}

		#extract the line range in the file after the patch is applied
		if (!$in_commit_log &&
		$line =~ /^\@\@ -\d+(?:,\d+)? \+(\d+)(,(\d+))? \@\@(.*)/) {

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