Re: checkpatch WARNING: patch prefix 'b' exists, appears to be a-p0 patch

[Wolfram Sang]

> Maybe something as simple as a comment in the checkpatch source
> to say that such a file / directory can cause false positives?

I'd hope this error message would be clear enough, what do you think?

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3dfc471..19e4de7 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ sub process {
 			if (!$file && $tree && $p1_prefix ne '' &&
 			    -e "$root/$p1_prefix") {
 				WARN("PATCH_PREFIX",
-				     "patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch\n");
+				     "patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists as file/directory. Make sure this isn't a -p0 patch\n");
 			}
 
 			if ($realfile =~ m@^include/asm/@) {

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