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| author | Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> | 2018-08-21 21:58:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 10:52:49 -0700 |
| commit | 133712a2ec8493596565e9de3d25659d6e66a47e (patch) | |
| tree | 9f48d3b7f7d0223ff572192da2dca9350d1441cd /scripts/checkpatch.pl | |
| parent | 809e082e973da2c7b751dab9348853cb8cc3f25c (diff) | |
| download | linux-133712a2ec8493596565e9de3d25659d6e66a47e.tar.bz2 | |
checkpatch: DT bindings should be a separate patch
Devicetree bindings should be their own patch as documented in
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt section I.1.
This is because bindings are logically independent from a driver
implementation, they have a different maintainer (even though they often
are applied via the same tree), and it makes for a cleaner history in the
DT only tree created with git-filter-branch.
[robh@kernel.org: add doc pointer to warning, simplify logic]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180810170513.26284-1-robh@kernel.org
[robh@kernel.org: v3]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180810225049.20452-1-robh@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809205032.22205-1-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5971b0c11616..5219280bf7ff 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2251,6 +2251,7 @@ sub process { my $author = ''; my $authorsignoff = 0; my $is_patch = 0; + my $is_binding_patch = -1; my $in_header_lines = $file ? 0 : 1; my $in_commit_log = 0; #Scanning lines before patch my $has_commit_log = 0; #Encountered lines before patch @@ -2501,6 +2502,19 @@ sub process { $check = $check_orig; } $checklicenseline = 1; + + if ($realfile !~ /^MAINTAINERS/) { + my $last_binding_patch = $is_binding_patch; + + $is_binding_patch = () = $realfile =~ m@^(?:Documentation/devicetree/|include/dt-bindings/)@; + + if (($last_binding_patch != -1) && + ($last_binding_patch ^ $is_binding_patch)) { + WARN("DT_SPLIT_BINDING_PATCH", + "DT binding docs and includes should be a separate patch. See: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt\n"); + } + } + next; } |