The patch titled scripts/checkpatch.pl: reset rpt_cleaners warnings has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scripts-checkpatchpl-reset-rpt_cleaners-warnings.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: scripts/checkpatch.pl: reset rpt_cleaners warnings From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> If you run checkpatch against multiple patches, and one of them has a whitespace issue which can be helped via a script (rpt_cleaners), you will see the same NOTE over and over for all subsequent patches. It makes it seem like those patches also have whitespace problems when in reality, there's only one or two bad apples. So reset rpt_cleaners back to 0 after we've issued the note so that it only shows up near the patch with the actual problems. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~scripts-checkpatchpl-reset-rpt_cleaners-warnings scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~scripts-checkpatchpl-reset-rpt_cleaners-warnings +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2944,6 +2944,7 @@ sub process { if ($rpt_cleaners) { print "NOTE: whitespace errors detected, you may wish to use scripts/cleanpatch or\n"; print " scripts/cleanfile\n\n"; + $rpt_cleaners = 0; } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vapier@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch backlight-new-driver-for-the-adp8870-backlight-devices.patch backlight-add-backlight-type-fix.patch backlight-add-backlight-type-fix-fix.patch llist-add-kconfig-option-arch_have_nmi_safe_cmpxchg.patch llist-lib-add-lock-less-null-terminated-single-list.patch llist-irq_work-use-llist-in-irq_work.patch llist-net-rds-replace-xlist-in-net-rds-xlisth-with-llist.patch sigma-firmware-loader-for-analog-devices-sigmastudio.patch sigma-firmware-loader-for-analog-devices-sigmastudio-v2.patch scripts-checkpatchpl-reset-rpt_cleaners-warnings.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html