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

[Yunfeng Ye]

On 2019/9/26 0:32, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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:".
>The purpose of subject "toplevel" is to maintain consistency with previous
modification patches. ok, I will modify it, thanks.

> 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")) {
> 
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