Re: checkpatch.pl warning on "added, moved or deleted" messed up

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 01:57:56PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> I ran checkpatch on my
>> 
>>     [PATCH 0/2] migration: Drop deprecated QMP stuff
>>     Message-ID: <20260108125512.2234147-1-armbru@redhat.com>
>> 
>> and got
>> 
>>     $ scripts/checkpatch.pl --terse *patch
>>     0001-migration-Drop-deprecated-QMP-command-query-migratio.patch:290: WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s):
>>     total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 129 lines checked
>> 
>> The culprit seems to be commit 1d745e6d963 (scripts/checkpatch: use new
>> hook for MAINTAINERS update check).  If I use the version immediately
>> preceding it, I get:
>> 
>>     0001-migration-Drop-deprecated-QMP-command-query-migratio.patch:105: WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?
>>     total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 129 lines checked
>
> Hmm, the problem is the --terse command is rather crude and simply
> throws away everything except the first line of text. My commit made
> the verbose output multi-line to improve readability
>
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl  ~/dep
> WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s):
>
>   migration/threadinfo.h
>   migration/threadinfo.c
>
> Does MAINTAINERS need updating?
>
> total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 193 lines checked
>
> /var/home/berrange/dep has style problems, please review.  If any of these errors
> are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
> CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
>
>
> but this inadvertantly made terse output worse :-(

Aha!

I posted a patch, Message-ID: <20260109071217.2326194-1-armbru@redhat.com>

Thanks!