checkpatch: make --strict a default for files in drivers/net and net/

Networking files are generally more strictly conformant to linux-kernel
style so make checkpatch more verbose by default for patches to files or
when checking files in these directories.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f2ef63a2e8d4..bb4c8428f333 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ my $emacs = 0;
 my $terse = 0;
 my $file = 0;
 my $check = 0;
+my $check_orig = 0;
 my $summary = 1;
 my $mailback = 0;
 my $summary_file = 0;
@@ -146,6 +147,7 @@ GetOptions(
 help(0) if ($help);
 
 $fix = 1 if ($fix_inplace);
+$check_orig = $check;
 
 my $exit = 0;
 
@@ -1813,11 +1815,13 @@ sub process {
                 $here = "#$linenr: " if (!$file);
                 $here = "#$realline: " if ($file);
 
+                my $found_file = 0;
                 # extract the filename as it passes
                 if ($line =~ /^diff --git.*?(\S+)$/) {
                         $realfile = $1;
                         $realfile =~ s@^([^/]*)/@@ if (!$file);
                         $in_commit_log = 0;
+                        $found_file = 1;
                 } elsif ($line =~ /^\+\+\+\s+(\S+)/) {
                         $realfile = $1;
                         $realfile =~ s@^([^/]*)/@@ if (!$file);
@@ -1834,6 +1838,15 @@ sub process {
                                 ERROR("MODIFIED_INCLUDE_ASM",
                                       "do not modify files in include/asm, change architecture specific files in include/asm-<architecture>\n" . "$here$rawline\n");
                         }
+                        $found_file = 1;
+                }
+
+                if ($found_file) {
+                        if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@) {
+                                $check = 1;
+                        } else {
+                                $check = $check_orig;
+                        }
                         next;
                 }