On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 04:49:32PM -0400, greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On the other hand if you submit a patch that addresses a real bug, > then simultaneously doing a checkpatch related patch to the same area > is a very good idea. No, that would be two different things. Do the bug fix first, and then the cleanup on a different patch. And even then, most maintainers will not take a cleanup patch. Stick with subsystems that do take these types of fixes if you want/like to do them (i.e. drivers/staging/*) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies