Problem facing while running checkpatch.pl on linux-next tree

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Sun Jul 27 05:47:18 EDT 2014


On Jul 27, 2014 2:31 PM, "Rahul Garg" <rahul.lnmiit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to run checkpatch.pl on linux-next tree's staging folder.

what you are trying to check? a patch or style problem of any code??

> But whatever sub directory, I try to run it on. It is giving me the
> same error for all the files :
>
> ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch
>
> I thought that it might be a problem with my git. So I clone the git tree
again.
>
> So can anyone help me, what am I missing ?
>
> Regards
> Rahul
>
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