Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: avoid error on cover letter files

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/09/20 09:05, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:44:21PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 9/17/20 7:02 PM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>>> Running checkpatch on a directory that contains a cover letter reports
>>> this error:
>>>
>>>     Checking /tmp/tmpbnngauy3/0000-cover-letter.patch...
>>>     ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch
>>>
>>>     total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 lines checked
>>>
>>> Let's skip cover letter as it is already done in the Linux kernel.
>>
>> .. "commits 06330fc40e3f ("checkpatch: avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors
>>  on cover-letter.patch files") and a08ffbef4ab7 ("checkpatch: fix
>> ignoring cover-letter logic")."
>>
>> Maybe complete with that ^^^ ?
> 
> Yes, it's better ;-)
> 
> Should I send a v2 or can be updated when queueing?
> 
>>
>> Regardless:
>> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Stefano
> 

Queued with the fixed message, thanks.

Paolo