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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 15:12:20 -0700
Subject: Please do not generate patches purely based on checkpatch.
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 04:49:32PM -0400, greg.freemyer at gmail.com 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