Latest -next has a missing close parenthesis in the patch that adds better recognition for rename only patches.
Add it. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> --- Dunno how that happened. Maybe this could be rolled into the appropriate patch that added this change. scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index f1fecd8aa4d7..3f936b046213 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2379,7 +2379,7 @@ sub process { if (!$in_commit_log && ($line =~ /^ mode change [0-7]+ => [0-7]+ \S+\s*$/ || ($line =~ /^rename (?:from|to) \S+\s*$/ || - $line =~ /^diff --git a\/[\w\/\.\_\-]+ b\/\S+\s*$/)) { + $line =~ /^diff --git a\/[\w\/\.\_\-]+ b\/\S+\s*$/))) { $is_patch = 1; }