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

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 20:37 +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.

Maybe the commit subject could use "scripts:"
or something similar and not "toplevel:".

Trivially, it one day it'd be good to use the
same routine and output message too.

> Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl     | 2 +-
>  scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 93a7edf..6117d0e 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ sub top_of_kernel_tree {
>  	my @tree_check = (
>  		"COPYING", "CREDITS", "Kbuild", "MAINTAINERS", "Makefile",
>  		"README", "Documentation", "arch", "include", "drivers",
> -		"fs", "init", "ipc", "kernel", "lib", "scripts",
> +		"fs", "init", "kernel", "lib", "scripts",
>  	);
> 
>  	foreach my $check (@tree_check) {
> diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> index 5ef5921..2e42aeb 100755
> --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> @@ -1109,7 +1109,6 @@ sub top_of_kernel_tree {
>  	&& (-d "${lk_path}drivers")
>  	&& (-d "${lk_path}fs")
>  	&& (-d "${lk_path}init")
> -	&& (-d "${lk_path}ipc")
>  	&& (-d "${lk_path}kernel")
>  	&& (-d "${lk_path}lib")
>  	&& (-d "${lk_path}scripts")) {