I am not really sure how to do that and how to reflect it in the patch i followed what was taught in the Beginners course and it does not mention building. I know i need to test it out but is running 'patch -p1 < x.patch what i need to do? On 19-05-2021 14:01, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:19:58AM -0700, Hriday Hegde wrote: >> Fixing following warnings found by checkpatch.pl >> WARNING: struct file_operations should normally be const >> 380: FILE: drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c:380: >> + static struct file_operations vmfile_fops; >> >> Signed-off-by: Hriday Hegde <hridayhegde1999@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c >> index 8ee4320a5dc6..8ff2794b08e3 100644 >> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c >> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c >> @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ ashmem_vmfile_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, >> >> static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) >> { >> - static struct file_operations vmfile_fops; >> + static const struct file_operations vmfile_fops; >> struct ashmem_area *asma = file->private_data; >> int ret = 0; >> >> -- >> 2.25.1 >> >> > Any reason why you didn't build your change before submitting this > patch? > > thanks, > > greg k-h