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

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 6:43 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
> []
> > > Is this intentional behavior?
>
> Yes.
>


But, my patch is apparently -p1 patch.


Everyone knows "git format-patch" uses a/ and b/ prefixes.

Can we handle 'b' as a special case?

Or, can we warn it only when $root/$p1_prefix is a directory, at least?



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Masahiro Yamada