Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: improve MAINTAINERS file update test

[Daniel Dadap]

On 7/27/20 4:07 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
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> On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 15:58 -0500, Daniel Dadap wrote:
> > Add an additional regular expression to detect updates to the
> > MAINTAINERS file as reported in the unified diffs generated by
> > `git format-patch`. This suppresses the "does MAINTAINERS need
> > updating" message when MAINTAINERS is updated with this format.
> Please cc at least LKML.


Oops; thanks for adding the list. I'll be sure to include it for any 
revised patches.


> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > @@ -2621,7 +2621,8 @@ sub process {
> >
> >   # Check if MAINTAINERS is being updated.  If so, there's probably no need to
> >   # emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message on file add/move/delete
> > -             if ($line =~ /^\s*MAINTAINERS\s*\|/) {
> > +             if ($line =~ /^\s*MAINTAINERS\s*\|/ ||
> > +                 $line =~ /^[-+]{3} [ab]\/MAINTAINERS$/) {
> I don't believe this works well as any test
> for a file modification to MAINTAINERS occurs
> after the block that would show a diffstat
> where the warning is emitted.


Hmm. It must have worked for me because the MAINTAINERS file appeared 
earlier in the patch than a newly added file in a patch I was checking 
that triggers this warning before this change, but doesn't after this 
change. This needn't be the case, though. Would it make sense to move 
the check for a diffstat-style /^\sMAINTAINERS\s*\|/ as well as a 
unidiff-style /^[-+]{3} [ab]\/MAINTAINERS$/ to the pre-scan sanitize phase?