Re: checkpatch: question about "patch prefix 'b' exists" warning

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Sep 24 2022 - 17:43:43 EST


On Sun, 2022-09-25 at 03:03 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> (+CC: LKML)
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 3:00 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When I used scripts/checkpatch.pl to check a patch file
> > generated by 'git format-patch', I observed this warning,
> >
> > WARNING: patch prefix 'b' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch
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> > Is this intentional behavior?

Yes.