Commit 06330fc4 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files

Make an exception for the "Does not appear to be a unified-diff" error
when scanning what appears to be git generated cover letters.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f1a63678
...@@ -5614,7 +5614,7 @@ sub process { ...@@ -5614,7 +5614,7 @@ sub process {
exit(0); exit(0);
} }
if (!$is_patch) { if (!$is_patch && $file !~ /cover-letter\.patch$/) {
ERROR("NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF", ERROR("NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF",
"Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch\n"); "Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch\n");
} }
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