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

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:34 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > So we need a combination of the two approaches then, it makes sense to 
> > > only emit the warning if the patched file exists in both prefixes.
> > I don't think so.  What about something like:
> > $ diff -urN kernel/foo~ kernel/foo > patch
> > I think we should only care about the patched file,.
> I mean it only makes sense if both prefixes exist (otherwise patch and 
> git-apply will assume it's not a -p0 patch).

I think we should not care about the prefixes at all,
only whether or not the patched file exists.


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