From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com> Running checkpatch on a directory that contains a cover letter reports this error:
Checking /tmp/tmpbnngauy3/0000-cover-letter.patch... ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 lines checked Let's skip cover letter as it is already done in the Linux kernel commits 06330fc40e3f ("checkpatch: avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files") and a08ffbef4ab7 ("checkpatch: fix ignoring cover-letter logic"). Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200917170212.92672-1-sgarz...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index bd3faa154c..3c898f878a 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3005,7 +3005,7 @@ sub process { return 1; } - if (!$is_patch) { + if (!$is_patch && $filename !~ /cover-letter\.patch$/) { ERROR("Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch\n"); } -- 2.26.2