Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow not using -f with files that are in git

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:26:59AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

> I'll post it again as a reply to this email with a
> with a sign-off and a better commit description and
> Linus/Andrew can decide if it's better to revert
> f5f613259f3f or apply it separately.

Gentle reminder on this, it is the last weekday of the merge window
and checkpatch is still failing on Linus's latest (b76f733c).. 

   Global symbol "$gitroot" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $gitroot"?) at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 980.

Thanks,
Jason