On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 08:03:14PM +0530, srishti sharma wrote: This driver is not in Greg KH's staging tree. You may like to work off of that tree when doing staging patches. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/ To aid you future patches here are a couple of minor comments for you. > fixed a trailing */ issue You may like to be more explicit here using the format described in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst (Section 2 Describe your changes). This goes for your subject line as well. > Signed-off-by: srishti sharma <srishtishar@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c b/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c > index a4ffa1b..38fabab 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c > @@ -247,8 +247,8 @@ static int snd_bcm2835_spdif_mask_get(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, > struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol) > { > /* bcm2835 supports only consumer mode and sets all other format flags > - * automatically. So the only thing left is signalling non-audio > - * content */ > + * automatically. So the only thing left is signalling non-audio content > + */ And for completeness this is the block comment style in networking code, the rest of the kernel uses the format /* * block comment blah blah * on multiple lines */ Good luck, Tobin. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel