On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:37:19AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:29:31PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > tested again. > > strange behaviour. > > if i send your patch to checkpatch from mutt via pipe I am getting these > > errors but if i save your patch to a file and then apply checkpatch to > > that file there is no error. This is the first time I am seeing this. > > > > Dan, any idea why? > > No idea. I wanted to say that you were saving with mutt's <decode-copy> > command but the email is in us-ascii so that theory doesn't work. > > How are you piping it to checkpatch.pl? I didn't know you could pipe to > checkpatch. press | , it will ask for "pipe to command:" there enter: scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict - this is the way I will check all patches, I will usually do | then scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict - if this is ok then git apply - && make M=drivers/staging so this will apply the patch and build if git apply was successfull. regards sudip > > regards, > dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
