Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 6/6] batman-adv: Adds snooping of router and override flags for NA creation

[Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>]

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 05:42:19PM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 06:51:32AM -0700, Mihail Costea wrote:
> > On 10 August 2013 06:20, Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> wrote:
> > >>       dat_entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*dat_entry), GFP_ATOMIC);
> > >>       if (!dat_entry)
> > >>               goto out;
> > >> +     /* some entries don't have an extra data and useful if allocation for
> > >> +      * data fails */
> > >
> > > this comment has to be indented
> > >
> > > /* like
> > >  * this
> > >  */
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > There are other style issues in this patch, but they mostly concern what I
> > > already pointed out in the other comments.
> > >
> > > Remember to always check your patch with checkpatch.pl --strict in order to find
> > > problems before sending the patches.
> > >
> > 
> > I still don't know what generated some style problems. Alignments
> > problems shouldn't be here because I already
> > used --strict (but that didn't say anything about comments) and sent
> > the patches with git mail. That is weird.
> > 
> 
> These are net/ specific style requirements. Try this before
> running checkpatch.pl:
> 
> sed -i "s#^--- a/#--- a/net/batman-adv/#;s#^+++ b/#+++ b/net/batman-adv/#" *.patch

Right, checkpatch will trigger the warning only if the patches are coming from
the net/ folder inside the kernel root. Linus's suggestion will help you to make
checkpatch thinks that the patches are coming from net/.

Cheers,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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