From 8582fb59f7ee012f2b8118c2bb95168c1622a4c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:16:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] get_maintainer: quiet noisy implicit -f vcs_file_exists
 checking

Checking command line filenames that are outside the git tree can emit a
noisy and confusing message.

Quiet that message by redirecting stderr.
Verify that the command was executed successfully.

Fixes: 4cad35a7ca69 ("get_maintainer.pl: reduce need for command-line option -f")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1970a1d2fecb258e384e2e4fdaacdc9ccf3e30a4.1470955439.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 49a00d54b835..aed4511f0304 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -2136,9 +2136,11 @@ sub vcs_file_exists {
 
     my $cmd = $VCS_cmds{"file_exists_cmd"};
     $cmd =~ s/(\$\w+)/$1/eeg;		# interpolate $cmd
-
+    $cmd .= " 2>&1";
     $exists = &{$VCS_cmds{"execute_cmd"}}($cmd);
 
+    return 0 if ($? != 0);
+
     return $exists;
 }