Solving checkpatch error with lex

[greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 07:10:24PM +0000, karthik nayak wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 12:37 AM?Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 00:04 +0530, karthik nayak wrote:
>     > was trying to fix the checkpatch error of not using c99 comments in the
>     > file
>     > drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c
>     > so I wrote a lex program to do so since there were way too many to do it
>     > manually.
>     > Could anyone have a look at my lex code and tell me if I need to change
>     it.
>     > I have attached the lex code.
>     > As per my testing it works perfectly, would love a second opinion.
> 
>     I see no reason to review someone's lex code. I guess very few people
>     are actually willing to do that.
> 
>     Why don't you just send in the diff? Or even better, the patch you
>     intend to submit. Almost everybody here can read diffs or patches.
> 
>     Hope this helps,
> 
>     Paul Bolle
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Paul,
> The only reason I didn't do that is cause the file is too large to manually
> have a look at, even the diff tends to be very huge.

Then the diff will not be accepted upstream either if it is too big to
review.