From 0616efa45af493a259d25c1716102173f10bd789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:52:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: speed up checking for filenames in sections
marked obsolete
Adding -f to the get_maintainer.pl invocation means git isn't invoked
by get_maintainer.pl for known filenames.
This reduces the overall time to run checkpatch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/22991e3a295aeb399b43af0478b6e5809106ccee.1472684066.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 4ecb66c595f4e..e44dc0c75d54a 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ sub is_maintained_obsolete {
return 0 if (!(-e "$root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl"));
- my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback $filename 2>&1`;
+ my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback -f $filename 2>&1`;
return $status =~ /obsolete/i;
}
--
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