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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-10-16 07:02:20 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 20:21:35 +0200
commitc1ab33269a84d6056d2ffc728d8bbaa26377d3e3 (patch)
tree47b3f64f324e7569183857cfd26167b8609678a4 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentcheckpatch: fix up comment checks search to scan the entire block (diff)
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checkpatch: include/asm checks should be anchored
It is possible to have other include/asm paths within the tree which are not subject to the do not edit checks. Ignore those. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 482768cd5790..0e5af8ed107e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ sub process {
$realfile = $1;
$realfile =~ s@^[^/]*/@@;
- if ($realfile =~ m@include/asm/@) {
+ if ($realfile =~ m@^include/asm/@) {
ERROR("do not modify files in include/asm, change architecture specific files in include/asm-<architecture>\n" . "$here$rawline\n");
}
next;