Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: improve error message for p1-check

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Wolfram Sang wrote:

> The old error message was not precise. State now explicitly that the
> prefix exists as a file/directory. Also change the conclusion ("appears
> to be") into an instruction ("make sure").
> 

Why can't we suppress this warning unless both prefixes appear as files or 
directories in the cwd?  ('a' and 'b' if using git format-patch)

> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 3dfc471..4bb4f88 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ sub process {
>  			if (!$file && $tree && $p1_prefix ne '' &&
>  			    -e "$root/$p1_prefix") {
>  				WARN("PATCH_PREFIX",
> -				     "patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch\n");
> +				     "patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists as file/directory. Make sure this isn't a -p0 patch\n");
>  			}
>  
>  			if ($realfile =~ m@^include/asm/@) {
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