From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760089AbZBLVH0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:07:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751238AbZBLVHQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:07:16 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:60148 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751003AbZBLVHP (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:07:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:05:32 -0800 From: Greg KH To: apw@canonical.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: checkpatch.pl --file gives wierd warning Message-ID: <20090212210532.GA5727@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andy, With Linus's tree I get the following wierd warning when using the --file option on checkpatch.pl: $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file drivers/staging/phison/phison.c WARNING: patch prefix 'drivers' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch I'm guessing that this isn't intentional :) Any ideas? thanks, greg k-h