Linux uses tabs for indentation and checkpatch always complained about automatically imported headers. update-linux-headers.sh could be modified to expand tabs, but there is no real reason to complain about any ugly code in Linux headers, so skip all hunk-related checks.
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrc...@redhat.com> --- Line offset of the diff assumes that Paolo's "[PATCH 0/3] checkpatch tweaks" is applied first. Context remains the same, though. scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 0f9ae512ae55..873a50292442 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1312,6 +1312,9 @@ sub process { # ignore non-hunk lines and lines being removed next if (!$hunk_line || $line =~ /^-/); +# ignore files that are being periodically imported from Linux + next if ($realfile =~ /^(linux-headers|include\/standard-headers)\//); + #trailing whitespace if ($line =~ /^\+.*\015/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; -- 2.9.2