Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Wolfram Sang <> | Subject | [PATCH] checkpatch: improve error message for p1-check | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:33:03 +0200 |
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The old error message was not precise. State now explicitly that the prefix exists as a file/directory. Also change the conclusion ("appears to be") into an instruction ("make sure").
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 3dfc471..4bb4f88 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ sub process { 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"); + "patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists as file/directory. Make sure this isn't a -p0 patch\n"); } if ($realfile =~ m@^include/asm/@) { -- 1.7.6.3
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