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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2016-10-11 13:52:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-11 15:06:30 -0700
commit0616efa45af493a259d25c1716102173f10bd789 (patch)
tree18f2263775e0ff72fb0e3ff7e7e6d7cdb963534b /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent15c03cfeabff447abec9e05b5830922099b89943 (diff)
checkpatch: speed up checking for filenames in sections marked obsolete
Adding -f to the get_maintainer.pl invocation means git isn't invoked by get_maintainer.pl for known filenames. This reduces the overall time to run checkpatch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/22991e3a295aeb399b43af0478b6e5809106ccee.1472684066.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 4ecb66c595f4..e44dc0c75d54 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ sub is_maintained_obsolete {
return 0 if (!(-e "$root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl"));
- my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback $filename 2>&1`;
+ my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback -f $filename 2>&1`;
return $status =~ /obsolete/i;
}