On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 02:46:53PM -0700, Ravi Kerur wrote: > Team, > > I will take up net/sched files and get a clean checkpatch run on them. I am working on a project which involves this piece of code and as part of learning the code I can clean-up the files. I ran checkpatch on some of them and I do see that it needs cleaning. For e.g. > > #:~/git/kernels/staging$ perl scripts/checkpatch.pl -f net/sched/act_api.c > WARNING: networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment... > #41: FILE: net/sched/act_api.c:41: > + /* > + * gen_estimator est_timer() might access p->tcfc_locki > > CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "!nest" > #95: FILE: net/sched/act_api.c:95: > + if (nest == NULL) > ... > [...] No one cares about either of those things. If it's a drivers/staging patch then we would merge it, but if it's a patch to net/sched/act_api.c they will probably just get annoyed with you. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html