Thanks Valdis. Seems like a d'oh moment now. Never thought of scanning through the git history for checkpatch . Good tip.

Thanks and regards
Yogesh
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:02 AM <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:05:37 +0530, Yogesh Chaudhari said:

> However, is there a place which documents which maintainers(and/or
> sub-systems) accept checkpatch(or other cleanup related) patches and
> who will reject them outright? Wouldn't it be good to have this
> documented, especially given that using the checkpatch is advised in
> Documentation/SubmitChecklist?

Try something like 'git log drivers/net/wireless/whateverdev' (or
whatever part of the tree you're looking at, and see if there have been
previous checkpatch fixes in that part of the tree.