It doesn't apply for me, and it looks white-space damaged. Does it pass checkpatch.pl for you and apply for you? Possibly an issue with my new gmail setup, but it looks more like this was damaged at the source. ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible #103: FILE: drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c:668: + acpi_bus_hot_remove_device(handle);$ WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line #103: FILE: drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c:668: + acpi_bus_hot_remove_device(handle);$ WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line #125: FILE: drivers/acpi/scan.c:132: + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) && (status != AE_NOT_FOUND))$ WARNING: suspect code indent for conditional statements (4, 9) #125: FILE: drivers/acpi/scan.c:132: + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) && (status != AE_NOT_FOUND)) printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX -- Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html