include/asm/ got removed over a decade back. checkpatch still has a check for it: MODIFIED_INCLUDE_ASM
Remove the check as it is no longer useful. Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanr...@gmail.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index f42e5ba16d9b..798e2236b1a3 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2799,10 +2799,6 @@ sub process { "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; } -- 2.30.0