unified-diff format

[srishti sharma]

okay , Thanks for your reply

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 2:53 AM, Jim Davis <jim.epost at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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