How to create patch for checkpatch.pl cleanups

[Daniel Baluta]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:00 PM, kashyap gada <kashyapgada at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Linux Newbies, I'm one too. I was looking out for some clean up work
> and I ran the checkpatch.pl script. I came across a file with some 400
> errors and 200 warnings. Now there were bunch of 80 char per line warning ,
> braces and related things. I don't want to be sending patches for each and
> every error or warning I fix as it becomes tedious and If i send lots of
> correction patches in one go the kernel maintainers wont accept it. I want
> to know Can we correct all similar errors or warnings in one patch? or
> series of patches?

Regarding 80 chars per line issues, people are discussing right now
on increasing the limit to 100. See [1].

For the other issues, just send a patch with all the changes. It should
be fine since you are modifying one single file.

thanks,
Daniel.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/5/141