Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: improve error message for p1-check

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 13:30 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > 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").
> Why can't we suppress this warning unless both prefixes appear as files or 
> directories in the cwd?  ('a' and 'b' if using git format-patch)

I sent a suggested patch that checked $root/$patched_file
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/19/257


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