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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix use via symlink, make missing spelling file non-fatal
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:31:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414143110.15751.13.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141024090252.GC2910@bark>

On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 10:02 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:29:11AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> [...]
> >  my $P = $0;
> > -$P =~ s@(.*)/@@g;
> > -my $D = $1;
> > +my $D = dirname(abs_path($P));
> 
> That changes the value of $P, I don't know if that is intended:
> 
>   my $D = dirname(abs_path($0));
> 
> or
> 
>   my $D = abs_path($1);
> 
> perhaps to keep $P as it was.

I did it to show the executable passed on the cmdline better.

It changes --help and some warn/die messages.

It's not particularly important either way.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22 10:43 regression: checkpatch.pl fails when called via symlink Jani Nikula
2014-10-22 12:20 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-22 13:25   ` Jani Nikula
2014-10-22 17:13     ` Joe Perches
2014-10-23 17:16       ` Jani Nikula
2014-10-23 17:29     ` [PATCH] checkpatch: fix use via symlink, make missing spelling file non-fatal Joe Perches
2014-10-23 18:52       ` Kees Cook
2014-10-24  9:02       ` Andy Whitcroft
2014-10-24  9:31         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-10-24 10:39           ` Andy Whitcroft

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