Re: Problem with checkpatch.pl (commit f5f613259f3f ("checkpatch: allow not using -f with files that are in git"))

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 15:59 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Runnning ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -g HEAD, I get the following error:
> 
> Global symbol "$gitroot" requires explicit package name at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 980.
> Execution of ./scripts/checkpatch.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
> 
> Reverting commit f5f613259f3f ("checkpatch: allow not using -f with files that are in git") clears 
> the problem.
> 
> Christophe

Thanks for the report.

The problem depended on another patch in -next
that was not send.

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