include/asm/ got removed in v1.1.45. Two decades later it's about time
to stop worrying whether patches still touch it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebo...@tiscali.nl>
---
Lightly tested.

 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a8368d1c4348..4975f251ba80 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2333,11 +2333,6 @@ sub process {
                                WARN("PATCH_PREFIX",
                                     "patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists, appears 
to be a -p0 patch\n");
                        }
-
-                       if ($realfile =~ m@^include/asm/@) {
-                               ERROR("MODIFIED_INCLUDE_ASM",
-                                     "do not modify files in include/asm, 
change architecture specific files in include/asm-<architecture>\n" . 
"$here$rawline\n");
-                       }
                        $found_file = 1;
                }
 
-- 
2.7.4

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