Autotest .at files often have lines with samples of expected output from
various programs, which fairly often includes leading tabs, so this warning
causes false positives there.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
---
 utilities/checkpatch.py | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utilities/checkpatch.py b/utilities/checkpatch.py
index 5ca4b9e2f8d3..df926e437c38 100755
--- a/utilities/checkpatch.py
+++ b/utilities/checkpatch.py
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ skip_signoff_check = False
 line_length_blacklist = ['.am', '.at', 'etc', '.in', '.m4', '.mk', '.patch',
                          '.py']
 
+# Don't enforce a requirement that leading whitespace be all spaces on
+# files that include these characters in their name, since these kinds
+# of files need lines with leading tabs.
+leading_whitespace_blacklist = ['.mk', '.am', '.at']
+
 
 def is_subtracted_line(line):
     """Returns TRUE if the line in question has been removed."""
@@ -200,8 +205,9 @@ checks = [
      'check': lambda x: line_length_check(x),
      'print': lambda: print_warning("Line length is >79-characters long")},
 
-    {'regex': '$(?<!\.mk|\.am)',
-     'match_name': None,
+    {'regex': None,
+     'match_name':
+     lambda x: not any([fmt in x for fmt in leading_whitespace_blacklist]),
      'check': lambda x: not leading_whitespace_is_spaces(x),
      'print': lambda: print_warning("Line has non-spaces leading whitespace")},
 
-- 
2.10.2

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