[PATCH] checkpatch: Don't check .pl files, improve absolute path commit log test

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Oct 24 2016 - 16:17:15 EST


perl files (*.pl) are mostly inappropriate to check coding styles so
exempt them from long line checks and various .[ch] file type tests.

And as well, only scan absolute paths in the commit log, not in the patch.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a8368d1c4348..2fc154bd81c0 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2601,20 +2601,6 @@ sub process {
$herecurr) if (!$emitted_corrupt++);
}

-# Check for absolute kernel paths.
- if ($tree) {
- while ($line =~ m{(?:^|\s)(/\S*)}g) {
- my $file = $1;
-
- if ($file =~ m{^(.*?)(?::\d+)+:?$} &&
- check_absolute_file($1, $herecurr)) {
- #
- } else {
- check_absolute_file($file, $herecurr);
- }
- }
- }
-
# UTF-8 regex found at http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.en.php
if (($realfile =~ /^$/ || $line =~ /^\+/) &&
$rawline !~ m/^$UTF8*$/) {
@@ -2652,6 +2638,20 @@ sub process {
"8-bit UTF-8 used in possible commit log\n" . $herecurr);
}

+# Check for absolute kernel paths in commit message
+ if ($tree && $in_commit_log) {
+ while ($line =~ m{(?:^|\s)(/\S*)}g) {
+ my $file = $1;
+
+ if ($file =~ m{^(.*?)(?::\d+)+:?$} &&
+ check_absolute_file($1, $herecurr)) {
+ #
+ } else {
+ check_absolute_file($file, $herecurr);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
# Check for various typo / spelling mistakes
if (defined($misspellings) &&
($in_commit_log || $line =~ /^(?:\+|Subject:)/i)) {
@@ -2805,7 +2805,7 @@ sub process {
}

# check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk
- next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|s|S|pl|sh|dtsi|dts)$/);
+ next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|s|S|sh|dtsi|dts)$/);

# line length limit (with some exclusions)
#
--
2.10.0.rc2.1.g053435c