unified-diff format

[Guru Das Srinagesh]

On 3 February 2017 at 13:25, srishti sharma <srishtishar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Hi Srishti,

The argument to checkpatch should be a patch, not the contents of a
directory. Please make a patch like so:

$ diff -u file.original file.modified > changes.patch
$ checkpatch.pl changes.patch

Guru Das Srinagesh.

>>
>> 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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