linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: remove check for include/asm modifications

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Message-Id: <20210318172629.123182-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:56:29 +0530
From:   Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
To:     joe@...ches.com
Cc:     linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lukas.bulwahn@...il.com,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: remove check for include/asm modifications

include/asm/ got removed over a decade back. checkpatch
still has a check for it: MODIFIED_INCLUDE_ASM

Remove the check as it is no longer useful.

Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f42e5ba16d9b..798e2236b1a3 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2799,10 +2799,6 @@ sub process {
 				     "patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch\n");
 			}
 
-			if ($realfile =~ m@...clude/asm/@) {
-				ERROR("MODIFIED_INCLUDE_ASM",
-				      "do not modify files in include/asm, change architecture specific files in include/asm-<architecture>\n" . "$here$rawline\n");
-			}
 			$found_file = 1;
 		}
 
-- 
2.30.0