netdev - Re: checkpatch.pl broke in net-next

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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:03:31 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl broke in net-next

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:56:35 -0700 Jacob Keller wrote:
> Hi Jakub,
> 
> It looks like net-next just pulled in a change to checkpatch.pl which
> causes it to break:
> 
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl
> Global symbol "$gitroot" requires explicit package name (did you forget
> to declare "my $gitroot"?) at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 980.
> Execution of ./scripts/checkpatch.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
> ERROR: checkpatch.pl failed: 255
> 
> It is caused by commit f5f613259f3f ("checkpatch: allow not using -f
> with files that are in git"), which appears to make use of "$gitroot".
> 
> This variable doesn't exist, so of course the perl script breaks.
> 
> This commit appears in Linus' tree, and must have been picked up when we
> merged with his tree.
> 
> This issue is fixed by 0f7f635b0648 ("checkpatch: enable GIT_DIR
> environment use to set git repository location") which is the commit
> that actually introduces $gitroot.
> 
> Any chance we can get this merged into net-next? It has broken our
> automation that runs checkpatch.pl

That and kvm broke the 32 bit x86 build :/

I will submit net to Linus on Thu, and pull back from him to net and
net-next. That'll fix it.