These files come from an external project (the hexagon archlib), so they deliberately do not follow QEMU's coding style. To avoid false positives from checkpatch.pl, let's disable the checking for those.
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares Bernardino <quic_mathb...@quicinc.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index d900d18048..e3e3b43076 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1667,6 +1667,7 @@ sub process { # some scripts we imported from other projects. next if ($realfile =~ /\.(s|S)$/); next if ($realfile =~ /(checkpatch|get_maintainer)\.pl$/); + next if ($realfile =~ /^target\/hexagon\/imported\/*/); if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\t/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; -- 2.37.2