[U-Boot] [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Fix checkpatch.pl warnings with Perl 5.22

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Mon Nov 30 17:06:45 CET 2015


On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 10:56 -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:23:20AM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
[]
> > Similar fix is already in Linus' master tree, see
> > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/comm
> > it/?id=4e5d56bdf892e18832a6540b63ebf709966bce2a
> > 
> > Also note:
> >  [1] That commit from Linux tree won't apply cleanly on U-Boot
> >      due to a bit different context.
> >  [2] Even if manually tweaked it looks like it is incomplete:
> >      ------------------->8-------------------
> >      )\(.*\).*\s{ <-- HERE / at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 2828.
> >      ------------------->8-------------------
> > 
> > So with above in mind could you please apply that patch posted by
> > Moritz?
> > 
> > This fixes checkpatch in Fedora 23 - in current state it is way too
> > noisy.
> 
> Maybe we just need to re-sync again?

I don't track u-boot.

Are there any u-boot specific changes made to checkpatch
that are inappropriate for the linux-kernel?

If there aren't, maybe whatever u-boot changes that have
been made to checkpatch should be pulled into the kernel
version.


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