On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 15:59 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > Hi, > > Runnning ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -g HEAD, I get the following error: > > Global symbol "$gitroot" requires explicit package name at > ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 980. > Execution of ./scripts/checkpatch.pl aborted due to compilation errors. > > Reverting commit f5f613259f3f ("checkpatch: allow not using -f with files > that are in git") clears > the problem. > > Christophe
Thanks for the report. The problem depended on another patch in -next that was not send. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c5e23b45562373d632fccb8bc04e563abba4dd1d.ca...@perches.com/