Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: do not check for "/dev/null" while parsing addition of files | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 05 May 2021 10:17:13 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 13:42 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > "/dev/null" is used to signal created or deleted files in the diff header. > While parsing the addition of files, checkpatch should look for > "+++ b/file" and ignore "+++ /dev/null".
nack. checkpatch shouldn't care about a/ b/ uses here.
> > Without this change, checkpatch falsely reports below warning for the > patch that does devicetree YAML conversion:
Send me a copy of the source patch that creates this false positive.
> > ``` > WARNING: DT binding docs and includes should be a separate patch. See: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst
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