From: Brian Norris <computersforpe...@gmail.com> If checkpatch.pl gets copied out of the tree, --no-tree shouldn't start complaining:
Use of uninitialized value $root in concatenation (.) or string at /path/to/checkpatch.pl line 764. Let's just give the safe answer instead -- don't warn about "obsolete" files. Fixes: 85b0ee18bbf8 ("checkpatch: see if modified files are marked obsolete in MAINTAINERS") Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpe...@gmail.com> --- This is a 4.9-rc1 regression scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index a8368d1c4348..c8cd643dbc6f 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -761,6 +761,8 @@ sub seed_camelcase_file { sub is_maintained_obsolete { my ($filename) = @_; + return 0 if (!$tree); + return 0 if (!(-e "$root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl")); my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback -f $filename 2>&1`; -- 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020