From: arigead@gmail.com (John Whitmore)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Strange warnings out of checkpatch
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 20:19:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151101201922.GA7361@bamboo.electronicsoup> (raw)
I'm using the MCP2515 driver chip on some work I'm doing. Out of curiosity I
ran checkpatch.pl on the C file and don't understand the output.
A search sort of seems to suggest that it is a problem with the checkpatch
utility itself.
http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?12,1264313
I'd like to understand what is either wrong with code or chcekpatch
$ scripts/checkpatch.pl drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251x.c
WARNING: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)
#727:
static void mcp251x_error_skb(struct net_device *net, int can_id, int data1)
ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch
total: 1 errors, 1 warnings, 0 lines checked
drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251x.c has style problems, please review.
NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
next reply other threads:[~2015-11-01 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-01 20:19 John Whitmore [this message]
2015-11-01 20:34 ` Strange warnings out of checkpatch Aruna Hewapathirane
2015-11-02 20:11 ` John Whitmore
2015-11-02 20:21 ` Aruna Hewapathirane
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