From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Nabih Estefan <nabihestefan@google.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, peter.maydell@linaro.org, berrange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Ignore removed lines in license check
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:43:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87seglm3lh.fsf@draig.linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250916165928.10048-1-nabihestefan@google.com> (Nabih Estefan's message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:59:28 +0000")
Nabih Estefan <nabihestefan@google.com> writes:
> When running the license check, if we are updating a license it is
> possible for the checkpatch script to test against old license lines
> instead of newer ones, since the removal lines appear before the
> addition lines in a .patch file.
>
> Fix this by skipping over lines that start with "-" in the checkpatch
> script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nabih Estefan <nabihestefan@google.com>
Queued to testing/next, thanks.
--
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-17 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-16 16:59 [PATCH] checkpatch: Ignore removed lines in license check Nabih Estefan
2025-09-17 9:00 ` Alex Bennée
2025-09-17 9:24 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-09-17 15:16 ` Nabih Estefan
2025-09-17 16:05 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-09-17 16:17 ` Nabih Estefan
2025-09-17 16:24 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-09-17 16:43 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
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