The script checkpatch.pl from Linux is enforcing a tab in the MAINTAINERS file (Linux commit 628f91a28649). It can be ignored in our wrapper checkpatches.sh.
Suggested-by: Remy Horton <remy.hor...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> --- devtools/checkpatches.sh | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh index a56c41a30..7676a6b50 100755 --- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh +++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ length=${DPDK_CHECKPATCH_LINE_LENGTH:-80} options="--no-tree" options="$options --max-line-length=$length" options="$options --show-types" -options="$options --ignore=LINUX_VERSION_CODE,FILE_PATH_CHANGES,\ +options="$options --ignore=LINUX_VERSION_CODE,\ +FILE_PATH_CHANGES,MAINTAINERS_STYLE,\ VOLATILE,PREFER_PACKED,PREFER_ALIGNED,PREFER_PRINTF,\ PREFER_KERNEL_TYPES,BIT_MACRO,CONST_STRUCT,\ SPLIT_STRING,LONG_LINE_STRING,\ -- 2.15.1