Hello Mauro! > Please check the patch with checkpatch.pl: I am nearly finished with a V2 series of this set, where I partly changed some of this issues. We decided to split the monster thread function into a sub function to make it more readable and also to overcome the 80 line length limit which gets even worse because of the additional indention due to this patch. See: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg116599.html There you wrote: The idea behind patch 04/11 makes sense to me. I'll review it carefully after having everything applied. Please re-send the first series, making sure that the authorship is preserved. I am nearly finished with the first series and THEN I plan to do parts of the second series again including the splitting of the thread function. BR, Jasmin