Hello,
I have received what appears to be a false warning from checkpatch.pl when
checking a patch named 'b':
$ scripts/checkpatch.pl b
WARNING: patch prefix 'b' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch
total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 16 lines checked
b has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
It appears that I can trigger this warning with any arbitrary commit. The
following bash script gives me at least one warning for everything in Linus'
tree:
for i in {0..100}
do
git format-patch -1 HEAD~$i --stdout > b
scripts/checkpatch.pl b
done
I have also seen this warning on patches with other names, but I'm not
reproducing that right now.
Brian
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