On Sat, 2017-12-02 at 19:15 +0200, Marcus Wolf wrote: > Can you give me a hint, how to invoke the checkpatch.pl. There are lots of ways. I suggest reading the output of $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --help For instance: [ after the fact checking ] $ git checkout -b <branch> [ commit one or more changes ] $ git format-patch -<count_of_commits> -o <directory> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl <directory>/* [ or pipe git diff output to checkpatch ] $ git checkout -b <branch> [ edit files and save changes ] $ git diff --stat -p | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl [ or run checkpatch on a particular commit ] $ ./scripts/checkpatch -g <commit> [ or run checkpatch.pl on a range of commits ] $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -g <rev1..rev2> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel