[PATCH] checkpatch: stop worrying about include/asm/

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Tue Dec 20 2016 - 14:11:21 EST


include/asm/ got removed in v1.1.45. Two decades later it's about time
to stop worrying whether patches still touch it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Lightly tested.

scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a8368d1c4348..4975f251ba80 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2333,11 +2333,6 @@ sub process {
WARN("PATCH_PREFIX",
"patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch\n");
}
-
- if ($realfile =~ m@^include/asm/@) {
- ERROR("MODIFIED_INCLUDE_ASM",
- "do not modify files in include/asm, change architecture specific files in include/asm-<architecture>\n" . "$here$rawline\n");
- }
$found_file = 1;
}

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2.7.4