Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] checkpatch: Add more user space directories to is_userspace()

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2026-05-20 at 12:08 +0200, Petr Vorel wrote:
> arch/*/tools/ and arch/*/boot/tools/ are directories containing user
> space tools. This helps not only to strscpy checks but also to CamelCase
> checks in the next commit to be more precise.
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> @@ -2669,7 +2669,10 @@ sub exclude_global_initialisers {
>  
>  sub is_userspace {
>      my ($realfile) = @_;
> -    return ($realfile =~ m@^tools/@ || $realfile =~ m@^scripts/@);
> +    return ($realfile =~ m@^tools/@ ||
> +		$realfile =~ m@^scripts/@ ||
> +		$realfile =~ m@^arch/[^/]+/tools/@ ||
> +		$realfile =~ m@^arch/[^/]+/boot/tools/@);

Perhaps a more generic test like

	m@^arch/.*\btools\b@