Don't complain when the patch includes lines with tabs only in the hunk's untouched context.
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 4fa06c0..075b614 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ sub process { next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|pl)$/); # in QEMU, no tabs are allowed - if ($rawline =~ /\t/) { + if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\t/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; ERROR("code indent should never use tabs\n" . $herevet); $rpt_cleaners = 1; -- 1.6.2.4