Commit 1a6fad0c authored Apr 30, 2018 by Joe Perches Committed by Stefan Hajnoczi May 10, 2018

checkpatch: reduce MAINTAINERS update message frequency



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 <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180430124651.10340-6-stefanha@redhat.com
(cherry picked from e0d975b1b439c4fef58fbc306c542c94f48bb849)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

parent 4be6131e

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1390,6 +1390,12 @@ sub process {
		}
		}

		# 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 =~ /^\sMAINTAINERS\s\\|/) {
		$reported_maintainer_file = 1;
		}

		# Check for added, moved or deleted files
		if (!$reported_maintainer_file && !$in_commit_log &&
		($line =~ /^(?:new\|deleted) file mode\s\d+\s$/ \|\|