linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: Move ipc/ to kernel/ipc/: don't check the ipc dir

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Date:   Thu, 26 Sep 2019 01:48:27 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@...wei.com>, apw@...onical.com,
        mingo@...nel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: Move ipc/ to kernel/ipc/: don't check the
 ipc dir

On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 09:26 +0800, Yunfeng Ye wrote:
> After the commit 76128326f97c ("toplevel: Move ipc/ to kernel/ipc/: move
> the files"), we met some error messages:
> 
>   ./scripts/checkpatch.pl:
>   "Must be run from the top-level dir. of a kernel tree"
> 
>   ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl:
>   "The current directory does not appear to be a linux kernel source tree.
> 
> Don't check the ipc dir in checkpatch.pl and get_maintainer.pl.

Thanks.