summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl41
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9e7e9d1d595..cc61cf7187e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -958,6 +958,33 @@ sub CHK {
}
}
+sub check_absolute_file {
+ my ($absolute, $herecurr) = @_;
+ my $file = $absolute;
+
+ ##print "absolute<$absolute>\n";
+
+ # See if any suffix of this path is a path within the tree.
+ while ($file =~ s@^[^/]*/@@) {
+ if (-f "$root/$file") {
+ ##print "file<$file>\n";
+ last;
+ }
+ }
+ if (! -f _) {
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ # It is, so see if the prefix is acceptable.
+ my $prefix = $absolute;
+ substr($prefix, -length($file)) = '';
+
+ ##print "prefix<$prefix>\n";
+ if ($prefix ne ".../") {
+ WARN("use relative pathname instead of absolute in changelog text\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+}
+
sub process {
my $filename = shift;
@@ -1168,6 +1195,20 @@ sub process {
$herecurr) if (!$emitted_corrupt++);
}
+# Check for absolute kernel paths.
+ if ($tree) {
+ while ($line =~ m{(?:^|\s)(/\S*)}g) {
+ my $file = $1;
+
+ if ($file =~ m{^(.*?)(?::\d+)+:?$} &&
+ check_absolute_file($1, $herecurr)) {
+ #
+ } else {
+ check_absolute_file($file, $herecurr);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
# UTF-8 regex found at http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.en.php
if (($realfile =~ /^$/ || $line =~ /^\+/) &&
$rawline !~ m/^$UTF8*$/) {