linux-kernel - [PATCH] .editorconfig: Respect .editorconfig settings from parent directories

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Message-Id: <20251217-editconfig-v1-1-883e6dd6dbfa@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:23:27 +0800
From: Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>, 
 Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@...hat.com>, 
 Danny Lin <danny@...ag0n.dev>, 
 Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>, 
 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, 
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] .editorconfig: Respect .editorconfig settings from parent
 directories

Setting 'root' to 'true' prevents the editor from searching for other
.editorconfig files in parent directories. However, a common workflow
involves generating a patch with 'git format-patch' and opening it in
an editor within the kernel source directory. In such cases, we want
any specific settings for patch files defined in an .editorconfig
located above the kernel source directory to remain effective.
Therefore, remove the 'root' setting from the kernel .editorconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>
---
Cc: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@...hat.com>
Cc: Danny Lin <danny@...ag0n.dev>
Cc: Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---
 .editorconfig | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index 29a30ccfc07bf2019cc05613c67ed35e02af6490..b5ea32b6954b9ae16b792a397b999da1eab6f95f 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 
-root = true
-
 [{*.{awk,c,dts,dtsi,dtso,h,mk,s,S},Kconfig,Makefile,Makefile.*}]
 charset = utf-8
 end_of_line = lf

---
base-commit: 563c8dd425b59e44470e28519107b1efc99f4c7b
change-id: 20251217-editconfig-d600eb4d7152

Best regards,
-- 
Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>