In case checkpatch is called with a path name that starts with ./ for
the current directory not all issues are being reported since internal
path checks don't succeed. This patch removes the leading './' from
$filename. This is needed to have checkpatch report all issues found
during execution.

Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gr...@microchip.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f2a1131..44435fd 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -730,6 +730,9 @@ my $fixlinenr = -1;
 my $vname;
 for my $filename (@ARGV) {
        my $FILE;
+       if ($filename =~ /^(\.\/)/) {
+               substr($filename, 0, 2) = "";
+       }
        if ($file) {
                open($FILE, '-|', "diff -u /dev/null $filename") ||
                        die "$P: $filename: diff failed - $!\n";
-- 
1.7.9.5

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