On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 13:50 +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > Dear Joe, dear Dwaipayan, > > while maintaining MAINTAINERS, I noticed that the REPEATED_WORD check, > which in general is a great addition to checkpatch.pl, generates a massive > number of warnings due to one specific pattern in the MAINTAINERS file:
I didn't actually check if there were many new false positives, but clearly that's one. Maybe exclude the MAINTAINERS file? - if ($rawline =~ /^\+/ || $in_commit_log) { + if (($rawline =~ /^\+/ || $in_commit_log) && $realfile ne "MAINTAINERS") { Maybe add git to the check for "long long"? - next if ($first eq 'long'); + next if ($first =~ /^(?:long|git)$/);