unified-diff format

srishti sharma srishtishar at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 16:15:52 EST 2017


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

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Jim Davis <jim.epost at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:08 PM, srishti sharma <srishtishar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What do I need to know to fix this error ?
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 2:33 AM, srishti sharma <srishtishar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What is unified-diff format , where can I read up on it ? I see this
>>> after running checkpatch.pl .
>
> Errm, it's not quite clear what error you are referring to.  In any
> event, if you use your favorite web search engine to look for the GNU
> diffutils manual, you should find a wealth of detail about the
> different diff formats.
>
>
> --
> Jim



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