Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] checkpatch: ignore automatically imported Linux headers

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/08/2016 19:38, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> Linux uses tabs for indentation and checkpatch always complained about
> automatically imported headers.  update-linux-headers.sh could be modified to
> expand tabs, but there is no real reason to complain about any ugly code in
> Linux headers, so skip all hunk-related checks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <address@hidden>
> ---
>  Line offset of the diff assumes that Paolo's "[PATCH 0/3] checkpatch tweaks"
>  is applied first.  Context remains the same, though.
> 
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 0f9ae512ae55..873a50292442 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1312,6 +1312,9 @@ sub process {
>  # ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed
>               next if (!$hunk_line || $line =~ /^-/);
>  
> +# ignore files that are being periodically imported from Linux
> +             next if ($realfile =~ 
> /^(linux-headers|include\/standard-headers)\//);
> +
>  #trailing whitespace
>               if ($line =~ /^\+.*\015/) {
>                       my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo