After some iterations of checkpatch.pl, on a new developed driver (tw5864), now I have the following: $ grep 'WARNING\|ERROR' /src/checkpatch.tw5864 | sort | uniq -c 31 ERROR: do not use C99 // comments 147 WARNING: Block comments use a trailing */ on a separate line 144 WARNING: Block comments use * on subsequent lines 435 WARNING: line over 80 characters At this point, Lindent was already used, and checkpatch.pl warnings introduced by Lindent itself were fixed. Usage of "indent --linux-style" (which behaves differently BTW) doesn't help anymore, too. Could anybody please advise how to sort out these issues automatically, because they look like perfectly solvable in automated fashion. Of course manual work would result in more niceness, but I am not eager to go through hundreds of place of code just to fix "over 80 characters" issues now. First one ("do not use C99 // comments") looks easy with regexps, but the other are not. Is there any known improvements or successors for Lindent? Or could we get indent/Lindent improved if we collect some money for this task? If anybody wants to look at actual code, here it is: https://github.com/bluecherrydvr/linux.git , branch tw5864_stable, drivers/staging/media/tw5864 Current output of "checkpatch.pl -f" for all source files in the driver is here: https://gist.github.com/andrey-utkin/12295148475e34ef948b Thanks in advance. -- 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