How to create patch for checkpatch.pl cleanups

[greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 11:10:29PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:00 PM, kashyap gada <kashyapgada@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello Linux Newbies, I'm one too. I was looking out for some clean up work
> > and I ran the checkpatch.pl script. I came across a file with some 400
> > errors and 200 warnings. Now there were bunch of 80 char per line warning ,
> > braces and related things. I don't want to be sending patches for each and
> > every error or warning I fix as it becomes tedious and If i send lots of
> > correction patches in one go the kernel maintainers wont accept it. I want
> > to know Can we correct all similar errors or warnings in one patch? or
> > series of patches?
> 
> Regarding 80 chars per line issues, people are discussing right now
> on increasing the limit to 100. See [1].
> 
> For the other issues, just send a patch with all the changes. It should
> be fine since you are modifying one single file.

No, please break it up into "one thing per patch" to make it easy to
review, otherwise it will be ignored and/or rejected.

Also realize that a lot of subsystem maintainers do not like these types
of patches, outside of the drivers/staging/ area, so you might want to
ask the subsystem developers if they will take this type of work before
you do it.

greg k-h