Cool Ill group all whitespace issues in one patch, compile everything and use objdiff to make sure I didnt brake anything and resend. Thanks, Sasa { name: Bogicevic Sasa phone: +381606006200 } > On Dec 11, 2015, at 00:24, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:07:03AM +0100, sasa bogicevic wrote: >> I wanted to start with approach one error one folder so I did “space prohibited before ,” in just hotplug folder. I used checkpatch script to see if I nailed it and the output was fine. >> When I do grep -rl I also get the same result eventhou when I look at the, for example, drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c there is no space before comma anywhere. I double checked it. I didn’t do header files unfortunately so that errors are expected I guess. >> >> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file --terse drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:190: WARNING: Block comments use * on subsequent lines >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:264: WARNING: line over 80 characters >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:265: WARNING: line over 80 characters >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:344: ERROR: return is not a function, parentheses are not required >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:359: ERROR: return is not a function, parentheses are not required >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:439: WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:463: WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '(' >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:478: WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '(' >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:569: WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '(' >> drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c:626: WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis ‘(' >> total: 2 errors, 8 warnings, 730 lines checked >> >> I used objdiff to record and see if I didn’t change anything and I got no output so I guess all is good, don’t know why grep finds “ ,” it is a mystery to me since I am on my working branch, looking at a file and it is not there. Can you also take a look on your side ? >> >> I wanted to do one small thing and when I see that it is good and accepted from you then do all warnings and errors one by one. > > OK, makes sense. I think you're on the right track, and if you extend > this patch to all of drivers/pci, I'll apply it. > > I see you found the lines that checkpatch didn't complain about. > Maybe checkpatch doesn't look at things inside quoted strings? That's > just a guess; I don't use checkpatch regularly. > > If you plan to do other things, e.g., removing spaces between the > function name and open parenthesis, I'd like to have all the "white > space-only" changes in a single patch. > > Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html