HI Abraham
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Abraham Arce
<abraham.arce.moreno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Victor,
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Victor Rodriguez <vm.rod25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> One simple question I have tried to use the checkpatch.pl like
>>
>> $ ./checkpatch.p patch1.patch
>>
>> but it doesn't work it shows
>>
>> Must be run from the top-level dir. of a kernel tree
>>
>> Any idea of what I am doing wrong
>>
>
> This line comes from
>
> if (!defined $root) {
> print "Must be run from the top-level dir. of a kernel tree\n";
> exit(2);
> }
>
> so use it from the top level directory as requested
>
> scripts/checkpath.pl /path/to/your/patch
>
> Best Regards
> Abraham
>
It works thanks
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