On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 04:32:58PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> From: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The copy of checkpatch.pl that we currently have in the kvm-unit-tests
> repository refuses to work without the --no-tree switch, since it looks
> for some kernel-related files to determine the top directory. Adjust this
> list of files for the kvm-unit-tests repository to make it work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index acef47b7..e858261c 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1382,9 +1382,8 @@ sub top_of_kernel_tree {
> my ($root) = @_;
>
> my @tree_check = (
> - "COPYING", "CREDITS", "Kbuild", "MAINTAINERS", "Makefile",
> - "README", "Documentation", "arch", "include", "drivers",
> - "fs", "init", "ipc", "kernel", "lib", "scripts",
> + "COPYRIGHT", "LICENSE", "MAINTAINERS", "Makefile",
> + "README.md", "docs", "lib", "scripts",
> );
>
> foreach my $check (@tree_check) {
> --
> 2.50.1
>
Merged.
Thanks,
drew
