Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] ARM virt: Add NVDIMM support

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 11:06:48AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 10:57, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --mailback base..
> 
> > > 2/7 Checking commit 5554e78b18ea (nvdimm: Use configurable ACPI IO base and size)
> > > ERROR: Do not add expected files together with tests, follow instructions in tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c: both tests/qtest/bios-tables-test-allowed-diff.h and hw/acpi/nvdimm.c found
> >
> > This beats me. Where did we get
> > tests/qtest/bios-tables-test-allowed-diff.h from?
> > It's a different patch, isn't it?
> 
> Ah, this is a bug in the checkfilename() function -- it uses
> some globals $acpi_testexpected and $acpi_nontestexpected, but
> there is no code to reset these when checkpatch starts checking
> a new patch. So if you only check one patch in a checkpatch run
> (eg by just passing it a single patch file) then it will work, but if
> a single checkpatch execution is checking several commits
> (eg in the way patchew runs it to check the whole series of
> git commits at once, or if you pass it several patch files) then
> it will give wrong results for the second and later patches.
> I think the variables need to be reset at the top of 'sub process()'.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

Good point. Will fix.