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. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 3f7245c..b84511b 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; } -- 2.10.0.rc2.1.g053435c
