Re: [PATCH] Staging: vc04_services: bcm2835-audio: bcm2835-ctl.c: Fixed alignment to match open parenthesis.

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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 07:11:01PM +0530, srishti sharma wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 03:15:11AM +0530, srishti sharma wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 08:07:14PM +0530, srishti sharma wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 02:37:22AM +0530, srishti sharma wrote:
> >> >> >> Fixed alignment so that it matched open parenthesis.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: srishti sharma <srishtishar@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> >> ---
> >> >> >>  drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c | 2 +-
> >> >> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c
> >> >> >> index f484bb0..2148ed0 100644
> >> >> >> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c
> >> >> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c
> >> >> >> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int snd_bcm2835_ctl_get(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
> >> >> >>  }
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>  static int snd_bcm2835_ctl_put(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
> >> >> >> -                             struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol)
> >> >> >> +                            struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol)
> >> >> >>  {
> >> >> >>       struct bcm2835_chip *chip = snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol);
> >> >> >>       int changed = 0;
> >> >> >
> >> >> > This patch is corrupted and can not be applied :(
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Why is this corrupted ?
> >> >
> >> > Try applying it with `git am`.  There should be space characters at the
> >> > start of these lines but your email client deleted them:
> >> >
> >> >         struct bcm2835_chip *chip = snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol);
> >> >         int changed = 0;
> >> >
> >> > Read Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
> >> >
> >> > regards,
> >> > dan carpenter
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I tried applying it with ' git am ' and it was giving me this error:
> >>
> >> fatal: corrupt patch at line XX
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> >> I think this was produced because of running ./scripts/cleanfile on the patch .
> >
> > Why would you do that?  By doing that you corrupted the patch file :(
> 
> After I run ./scritps/checkpatch.pl on the patch produced by git
> format-patch it has trailing whitespaces . So I was using
> ./scripts/cleanfile to fix that , I am not doing that anymore and am
> also not getting the corrupt patch error .

That means your code had trailing whitespaces, always fix that and NEVER
hand-edit or modify a patch unless you really know what you are doing.

> > Just use the proper output of 'git format-patch' and all will be fine.
> 
> I have done this and am still getting these errors:
> 
> error: patch failed:
> drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-      ctl.c:105
> 
> error: drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c:
> patch does not apply
> 
> 
> Why is it not applying ?

That is up to you to figure out, we have no idea as to exactly what you
are doing :)

good luck!

greg k-h
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