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