RE: [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix MAINTAINERS search pattern

[Chickles, Derek]

> On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 12:12 -0800, Derek Chickles wrote:
> > This fixes the check that was supposed to prevent the MAINTAINERS
> > warning from appearing when you run checkpatch.pl on a patch that
> > includes new files/directories and an updated MAINTAINERS file.
> 
> This suggested patch doesn't work.
> 
> $realfile isn't set until the file shows up
> in the patch itself.
> 
> The current test looks at the changelog
> before the files are modified and is correct.
> 

Thanks, you're right. My mistake was trying to run checkpatch.pl on a diff.
My patch works on diffs while the original code does not. This is by chance
really because MAINTAINERS is early in the patch. Using format-patch on
something that is committed is clearly the correct solution.
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