Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: report warning with files ending with blank lines

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2026-10-07 at 19:54 +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Yes if you think about this, this will read the last line of the .patch,
> not the last line of a new file that will be generated by the .patch.
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 70a11f2ff61d..0b9946c532af 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -785,3 +785,9 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/airoha,en7581-snand.yaml
>  F:	drivers/spi/spi-airoha-snfi.c
>  
> +AIROHA USB PHY DRIVER
> +M:	Christian Marangi <[ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx](mailto:ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx)>
> +L:	[linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx](mailto:linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (moderated for non-subscribers)
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/airoha,an7581-usb-phy.yaml
> +
> -- 
> 2.55.0
> 
> It's to catch situation like this. Example for entire new file or adding
> stuff at the end of a file, where a new line is introduced.
> 
> git am will complain about this.

It seems there's something odd about the patch content
as there aren't any context lines after the addition.

How was it generated ?