checkpatch: Avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files

PATCH New Joe Perches 1 participant 1 message Jun 4, 2015 Checkpatch

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Joe Perches

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2015-06-04 11:35 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 checkpatch: Avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files

Make an exception for the "Does not appear to be a unified-diff" error when scanning what appears to be git generated cover letters.

Signed-off-by Joe Perches <[email protected]>

---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

scripts/checkpatch.pl +1 -1

index c8032a0..da417b6 100755
@@ -5563,7 +5563,7 @@ sub process {
 		exit(0);
 	}
 
-	if (!$is_patch) {
+	if (!$is_patch && $file !~ /cover-letter\.patch$/) {
 		ERROR("NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF",
 		      "Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch\n");
 	}