Alright, I have understood now that I should not trust on checkpatch.pl script fully but partially it is indeed helpful. Please don't criticize this script, it was my fault instead. Before submitting code changes I would test them all, sorry for wasting your time please ignore this patch changes now. I will not commit such foolish mistakes now. Thank you Dhiraj Sharma On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:55 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:29:35PM +0530, Dhiraj Sharma wrote: > > I ran checkpatch.pl script which reported a warning to use const keyword > > on line 370.Therefore I made this change. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dhiraj Sharma <dhiraj.sharma0024@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c > > index c05a214191da..f9cfa15b785f 100644 > > --- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c > > +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c > > @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ ashmem_vmfile_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, > > > > static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) > > { > > - static struct file_operations vmfile_fops; > > + static const struct file_operations vmfile_fops; > > You have now submitted two patches that you obviously never even built, > which is the first step in kernel development :( > > Please be more careful next time. > > greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel