On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 14:06 +0100, Christian Gromm wrote:
> 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 you are going to attempt to do pathname translations,
please do it comprehensively using something like realpath.
$ cd <linux source tree path>
$ cd drivers/staging
$ <path if necessary>checkpatch.pl -f ./<file>
And it should be done for the files contained
in a patch too.
thanks.
> if ($file) {
> open($FILE, '-|', "diff -u /dev/null $filename") ||
> die "$P: $filename: diff failed - $!\n";
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