[merged mm-nonmm-stable] checkpatch-add-userspace-to-force-userspace-rules.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-nonmm-stable] checkpatch-add-userspace-to-force-userspace-rules.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: checkpatch: add --userspace to force userspace rules
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     checkpatch-add-userspace-to-force-userspace-rules.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Subject: checkpatch: add --userspace to force userspace rules
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 13:02:29 +0200

Also allow to use --no-userspace for userspace projects which vendored
checkpatch.pl and use --userspace globally to be able switch it off for
files with kernel code.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260904110230.1219037-4-pvorel@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-userspace-to-force-userspace-rules
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ my $env_config_dir = 'CHECKPATCH_CONFIG_
 my $max_line_length = 100;
 my $ignore_perl_version = 0;
 my $spdx_cxx_comments = 0;
+my $userspace;
 my $minimum_perl_version = 5.10.0;
 my $min_conf_desc_length = 4;
 my $spelling_file = "$D/spelling.txt";
@@ -143,6 +144,7 @@ Options:
                              (required by old toolchains), allow also C++
                              comments (//).
                              NOTE: it should *not* be used for Linux mainline.
+  --userspace                Force rules specific for userspace.
   --codespell                Use the codespell dictionary for spelling/typos
                              (default:$codespellfile)
   --codespellfile            Use this codespell dictionary
@@ -358,6 +360,7 @@ GetOptions(
 	'codespell!'	=> \$codespell,
 	'codespellfile=s'	=> \$user_codespellfile,
 	'typedefsfile=s'	=> \$typedefsfile,
+	'userspace!'	=> \$userspace,
 	'color=s'	=> \$color,
 	'no-color'	=> \$color,	#keep old behaviors of -nocolor
 	'nocolor'	=> \$color,	#keep old behaviors of -nocolor
@@ -2667,6 +2670,9 @@ sub exclude_global_initialisers {
 
 sub is_userspace {
     my ($realfile) = @_;
+
+    return $userspace if (defined $userspace);
+
     return ($realfile =~ m@^tools/@ ||
 		$realfile =~ m@^scripts/@ ||
 		$realfile =~ m@^arch/.*/tools/@);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from pvorel@suse.cz are