[PATCH] checkpatch: Remove cvs keyword check

From: Kari Argillander
Date: Tue Oct 26 2021 - 19:17:04 EST


Time has pass and we do not need these anymore as almost all people are
using git now days. Those who use cvs for kernel development probably
will handle cvs pretty well already so this check is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@xxxxxxxxx>
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If someona nack about this can you also help howto fix false alarms in
fs/ntfs3/ by this cvs check. We need to use $Log in comments as it is
real name. I'm also triccered to see these false alarms. I'm not
familier with perl regex syntax and do not really understand what we
are trying to do here. Maybe also because I do not know CVS very well.

I can do patch or someone else can do it. I just want this "problem"
away as it has been sitting my todo list too long.

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Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 5 -----
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ------
2 files changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index f0956e9ea2d8..08e53ec02f48 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
@@ -1105,11 +1105,6 @@ Others
The patch seems to be corrupted or lines are wrapped.
Please regenerate the patch file before sending it to the maintainer.

- **CVS_KEYWORD**
- Since linux moved to git, the CVS markers are no longer used.
- So, CVS style keywords ($Id$, $Revision$, $Log$) should not be
- added.
-
**DEFAULT_NO_BREAK**
switch default case is sometimes written as "default:;". This can
cause new cases added below default to be defective.
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 461d4221e4a4..6d65b748ac20 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4017,12 +4017,6 @@ sub process {
}
}

-# check for RCS/CVS revision markers
- if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\$(Revision|Log|Id)(?:\$|)/) {
- WARN("CVS_KEYWORD",
- "CVS style keyword markers, these will _not_ be updated\n". $herecurr);
- }
-
# check for old HOTPLUG __dev<foo> section markings
if ($line =~ /\b(__dev(init|exit)(data|const|))\b/) {
WARN("HOTPLUG_SECTION",
--
2.25.1