linux-kernel - Re: patch for format issues and header bug in net/ipv4/icmp.c

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Message-ID: <1300477261.2589.28.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:41:01 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jeffrin Jose <ahiliation@...oo.co.in>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch for format issues and header bug in net/ipv4/icmp.c

On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 00:05 +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote:
> hello ,
> 
> I have created a patch for net/ipv4/icmp.c
> using checkpatch.pl script to fix several warnings
> and an error.

You need to learn C programming before trying to correct C programs.
You should not just do what it takes to make checkpatch.pl happy.

Ben.

> I have attached the patch along with this mail.
> 
> /Thanks
> 

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