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SubjectRe: [PATCH][RESEND] checkpatch: Add warning for p0-patches
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Hi Wolfram,

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:55:40PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Hello Boris,
>
> > files. Well, this one suffers from the exact opposite problem - it won't trigger
> > even if it is a -p0 patch on new files, AFAICT.
>
> Can you give an example, please? I fail to see this at the moment.

Watch this:

Here's an arbitrary piece of a patch one could create:

--- /dev/null 2008-11-09 02:46:02.525014459 +0100
+++ arch/x86/kernel/tsc_resync.c 2008-11-14 07:22:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This is a new file

and, as you can see, it is a -p0 patch. Now, in the code you do:

if ($tree && -e "$root/$p1_prefix") {
WARN("Patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists. Is it maybe a p0-patch?\n");

and the "$root/$p1_prefix" won't exist - as a matter of fact - would
lose its "arch" part due to the regex before and the if-condition won't
trigger.

Nevertheless, this can be made to work if a special condition is added
which looks for "/dev/null" or similar strings which are a unique for a
patch adding a new file, or something like that. But I admit, this is a
contrived case and as such it is really rare in reality and you never
gonna have a problem like that if you use git or quilt :).

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.


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