From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-GM-THRID: 6330587655423655936 X-Received: by 10.157.15.145 with SMTP id d17mr6883877otd.21.1473957529940; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:38:49 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.157.27.100 with SMTP id l91ls3965986otl.14.gmail; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:38:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.35.244 with SMTP id t107mr6870698otb.2.1473957529442; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 142si3045012pfx.2.2016.09.15.09.38.49 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of gregkh@linuxfoundation.org designates 140.211.169.12 as permitted sender) client-ip=140.211.169.12; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of gregkh@linuxfoundation.org designates 140.211.169.12 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Received: from localhost (pes75-3-78-192-101-3.fbxo.proxad.net [78.192.101.3]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C11D58D9; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:38:55 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Anchal Jain Cc: outreachy-kernel Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] Doubts Regaarding the checkpatch.pl Message-ID: <20160915163855.GD30633@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 08:53:18AM -0700, Anchal Jain wrote: > In checkpatch.pl tool only considers those patch which fixes the > warning and errors. What do you mean by this? > Those patch fixes the CHECK using checkpatch.pl tool. It is considered > in the patch or not? I'm sorry, but I can not parse this, can you rephrase it? thanks, gre gk-h