From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>,
Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: Skip CamelCase cache for --no-tree without root
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 15:09:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260528130952.GA261301@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260519161436.79801-1-pvorel@suse.cz>
Hi all,
gently ping for a review.
Kind regards,
Petr
> Running outside tree (--no-tree) without git root (--root DIR) is not
> doable because we have no include/ directory which could be cached. But
> 3445686af721 expected that we are always in Linux tree (w/a git).
> But --no-tree does not require --root. Therefore skip whole caching in
> that case.
> This fixes perl and find errors when running checkpatch.pl *with*
> --no-tree --strict and *without* --root:
> No structs that should be const will be found - file 'scripts/const_structs.checkpatch': No such file or directory
> Use of uninitialized value $root in concatenation (.) or string at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 1213.
> find: ‘/include’: No such file or directory
> Fixes: 3445686af721 ("checkpatch: ignore existing CamelCase uses from include/...")
> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> ---
> NOTE: I found that running checkpatch.pl on projects which vendored
> checkpatch.pl (e.g. LTP or u-boot).
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 0d18771f1b01..939d2b9ecebd 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1208,6 +1208,8 @@ sub seed_camelcase_includes {
> my $git_last_include_commit = `${git_command} log --no-merges --pretty=format:"%h%n" -1 -- include`;
> chomp $git_last_include_commit;
> $camelcase_cache = ".checkpatch-camelcase.git.$git_last_include_commit";
> + } elsif (not defined $root) {
> + return;
> } else {
> my $last_mod_date = 0;
> $files = `find $root/include -name "*.h"`;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-28 13:10 UTC|newest]
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2026-05-19 16:14 [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: Skip CamelCase cache for --no-tree without root Petr Vorel
2026-05-28 13:09 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2026-07-02 21:28 ` Petr Vorel
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