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Message-ID: <20140425075020.GF26890@mwanda>
Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:50:20 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Nicolas Del Piano <ndel314@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mail@...ndporr.me.uk,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: drivers: fixed a  coding style issue.

Patches need to be sent inline.  Perhaps use git send-email.


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:06:44AM -0300, Nicolas Del Piano wrote:
> 
> >From 38e0d5778bd97062115e7d8a8ca40d18f3d71707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nicolas Del Piano <ndel314@...il.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:46:49 -0300
> Subject: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: drivers: fixed a missing blank line after a
>  declaration coding style.
> 

We don't want these headers in the patch.

> Fixed a coding style issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Del Piano <ndel314@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
> index cb5d214..71569bc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
> @@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ static void *comedi_recognize(struct comedi_driver *driv, const char *name)
>  static void comedi_report_boards(struct comedi_driver *driv)
>  {
>  	unsigned int i;
> +
>  	const char *const *name_ptr;

The original code was correct.  This is a bug in checkpatch.pl.  The
missing line check should count any lines starting with "const" or
"static" as declarations.

regards,
dan carpenter

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