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

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

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 :-(

With regards,
Daniel
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