On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:14 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> I realized the problem is simply with the existence of a file
> named 'b'. That is, checkpatch will give a warning for this:
> touch b
> git format-patch -1 --stdout | scripts/checkpatch.pl -
> WARNING: patch prefix 'b' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch
> Is that expected?
Yes. Basically, don't have a file (or a directory)
named a or b in the kernel root directory.
if (!$file && $tree && $p1_prefix ne '' &&
-e "$root/$p1_prefix") {
WARN("PATCH_PREFIX",
"patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists, appears
to be a -p0 patch\n");
}
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