Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: Move ipc/ to kernel/ipc/: don't check the ipc dir

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Sep 26 2019 - 04:49:03 EST


On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 09:26 +0800, Yunfeng Ye wrote:
> After the commit 76128326f97c ("toplevel: Move ipc/ to kernel/ipc/: move
> the files"), we met some error messages:
>
> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl:
> "Must be run from the top-level dir. of a kernel tree"
>
> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl:
> "The current directory does not appear to be a linux kernel source tree.
>
> Don't check the ipc dir in checkpatch.pl and get_maintainer.pl.

Thanks.