On 2011-08-22 22:18, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> PS: Just accidentally ran checkpatch against recent top of qemu.git as
>> well - looks like not many maintainers use that tool themselves...
>> (not really helpful when asking contributors to do this)
> 
> I'll bite, care to be more specific?

Try e.g.

git format-patch --stdout 0bf1dbdcc9..6e23063c46 | \
scripts/checkpatch.pl -

Looking closer, I guess one reason is that changes were done by scripts,
partly just "preserving" old issues.

Jan