Checkpatch.pl and code cleanup

harris bohr debiandev at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 00:59:44 EDT 2014


better spend time on learning the kernel internals than coding style errors. if you improve the code, fix the check patch roots around that code and send in a patch

Abhijeet Kasurde <abhijeetkasurde21 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Pardon me, if this question is asked previously,
>
>Recently, I came across script in Linux Kernel called 'checkpatch.pl'
>which is checks coding style of a patch or file.
>
>Out of curiosity, I ran script on multiple modules and saw indentation
>and other errors in coding style. So question is, Can I fix them or
>these errors in coding style are "low hanging fruits" for now ?
>
>Thanks,
>Abhijeet Kasurde
>
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