linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch: ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch

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Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:47:33 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Subject: Re: checkpatch: ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format
	patch

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:28:00PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> scripts/checkpatch.pl doesn't seem to like this patch:
> 
> $ scripts/checkpatch.pl m68k-export-asm-cachectl-h.diff 
> ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch
>...
> --- a/include/asm-m68k/Kbuild
> +++ b/include/asm-m68k/Kbuild
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
>... ^^

Broken patch, this has to be "-1,1".

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert

cu
Adrian

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