scripts: documentation-file-ref-check: ignore hidden files

There's a warning there from a .gitignore file: tools/perf/.gitignore: Documentation/doc.dep This is not really a cross-reference type of warning, so no need to report it. In a matter of fact, it doesn't make sense at all to even parse hidden files, as some text editors may create such files for their own usage. So, just ignore everything that matches this pattern: /\.* Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dd0125a931b4fecf8fab6be8aa527faa18f78e43.1634629094.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
d0u9 · Oct 26, 2021 · 14efb27 · 14efb27
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diff --git a/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check b/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ while (<IN>) {
 	# Makefiles and scripts contain nasty expressions to parse docs
 	next if ($f =~ m/Makefile/ || $f =~ m/\.sh$/);
 
+	# It doesn't make sense to parse hidden files
+	next if ($f =~ m#/\.#);
+
 	# Skip this script
 	next if ($f eq $scriptname);