* [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix false DT_SPLIT_BINDING_PATCH warnings
@ 2026-01-21 21:27 Rob Herring (Arm)
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From: Rob Herring (Arm) @ 2026-01-21 21:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andy Whitcroft, Joe Perches, Dwaipayan Ray, Lukas Bulwahn; +Cc: linux-kernel
Patches which both remove and add/modify DT binding files are
incorrectly flagged as needing to split the patch. The issue is the
check sees "dev/null" as one of the files in the patch which is not a DT
binding file. Add "dev/null" to the skipped files.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index c0250244cf7a..f42c024fe6ef 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2924,7 +2924,7 @@ sub process {
}
$checklicenseline = 1;
- if ($realfile !~ /^MAINTAINERS/) {
+ if ($realfile !~ /^(MAINTAINERS|dev\/null)/) {
my $last_binding_patch = $is_binding_patch;
$is_binding_patch = () = $realfile =~ m@^(?:Documentation/devicetree/|include/dt-bindings/)@;
--
2.51.0
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