linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: Speed up checking for filenames in sections marked obsolete

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Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:58:42 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Speed up checking for filenames in sections marked obsolete

Adding -f to the get_maintainer.pl invocation means git isn't invoked
by get_maintainer.pl for known filenames.

This reduces the overall time to run checkpatch.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3f7245c..b84511b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ sub is_maintained_obsolete {
 
 	return 0 if (!(-e "$root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl"));
 
-	my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback $filename 2>&1`;
+	my $status = `perl $root/scripts/get_maintainer.pl --status --nom --nol --nogit --nogit-fallback -f $filename 2>&1`;
 
 	return $status =~ /obsolete/i;
 }
-- 
2.10.0.rc2.1.g053435c