scripts/checkpatch.pl: remove bogus patch prefix warning
Remove the 'patch prefix exists, appears to be a -p0 patch' warning
entirely as it is fundamentally flawed and can only produce false
positives.
Sometimes I create test files with names 'a' and 'b', and then get
surprised seeing this warning. It was not easy to understand where it
comes from.
How it works:
1. It extracts prefixes (a/, b/) from standard diff output
2. Checks if files/directories with these names exist in the project
root
3. Warns if they exist, claiming it's a '-p0 patch' issue
This logic is wrong because:
- Standard diff/patch tools always use a/ and b/ prefixes by default
- The existence of files named 'a' or 'b' in the working directory is
completely unrelated to patch format
- The working directory state may not correspond to the patch content
(different commits, branches, etc.)
- In QEMU project, there are no single-letter files/directories in root,
so this check can only generate false positives
The correct way to detect -p0 patches would be to analyze the path
format within the patch itself (e.g., absolute paths or paths without
prefixes), not check filesystem state.
So, let's finally drop it.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251030201319.858480-1-vsementsov@yandex-team.ru
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>