On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 5:47 PM Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> include/asm/ got removed a long time back (probably v1.1.45).
> Checkpatch still worries about that:
>
> if ($realfile =~ m@^include/asm/@) {
> ERROR("MODIFIED_INCLUDE_ASM",
> "do not modify files in include/asm, change architecture specific
> files in include/asm-<architecture>\n" . "$here$rawline\n");
> }
>
> Can we remove this check?
>Wow, v1.1.45... that must have been taking quite some digging in the ancient dirt to find that out. I agree, let us remove that rule. Thanks for the documentation effort on checkpatch.pl and cleaning up obsolete rules while documenting. Lukas
