[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/5] checkpatch: reduce MAINTAINERS update message frequency

[Thomas Huth]

This is a port of the following commit from the Linux kernel:

commit e0d975b1b439c4fef58fbc306c542c94f48bb849
Author: Joe Perches <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Dec 10 15:51:49 2014 -0800

    checkpatch: reduce MAINTAINERS update message frequency

    When files are being added/moved/deleted and a patch contains an update to
    the MAINTAINERS file, assume it's to update the MAINTAINERS file correctly
    and do not emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message.

    Reported by many people.

    Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <address@hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <address@hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <address@hidden>

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e1be7b3..555a5b6 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1300,6 +1300,12 @@ sub process {
                        }
                }
 
+# Check if MAINTAINERS is being updated.  If so, there's probably no need to
+# emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message on file add/move/delete
+               if ($line =~ /^\s*MAINTAINERS\s*\|/) {
+                       $reported_maintainer_file = 1;
+               }
+
 # Check for added, moved or deleted files
                if (!$reported_maintainer_file && !$in_commit_log &&
                    ($line =~ /^(?:new|deleted) file mode\s*\d+\s*$/ ||
-- 
1.8.3.1