[Devel] [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: fixed regression after COPYING was renamed

[Vasily Averin]

according to 
https://access.redhat.com/labs/rhcb/RHEL-8.3/kernel-4.18.0-240.10.1.el8/sources/
original RHEL8 kernel uses COPYING name.
 problem was happen during our rebase.
Kostja,
could you please take look at your build scripts?

Thank you,
	Vasily Averin
	
On 1/20/21 1:51 AM, Valeriy Vdovin wrote:
> fixes: 90e3b8f80b22002418d3056438a82837769c4691
> checpatch.pl first checks that the script is run from top of kernel tree.
> it does so by calling top_of_kernel_tree function, which has a hardcoded
> set of files that are enough to identify top of tree by their presence.
> The troublesome patch renames COPYING by adding prefix and so the check
> fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Valeriy Vdovin <valeriy.vdovin at virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 4d80526..cb9cddd 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ sub top_of_kernel_tree {
>  	my ($root) = @_;
>  
>  	my @tree_check = (
> -		"COPYING", "CREDITS", "Kbuild", "MAINTAINERS", "Makefile",
> +		"COPYING-4.18.0", "CREDITS", "Kbuild", "MAINTAINERS", "Makefile",
>  		"README", "Documentation", "arch", "include", "drivers",
>  		"fs", "init", "ipc", "kernel", "lib", "scripts",
>  	);
>