unified-diff format

Jim Davis jim.epost at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 16:23:55 EST 2017


On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM, srishti sharma <srishtishar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I ran perl scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/comedi/* | less
> for the file comedi_buf.o there is one error , it says
> ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch

If it's an *.o file then perhaps it's output from a compiler and not a
text file that checkpatch could usefully look at.

-- 
Jim



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