Re: checkpatch.pl script is throwing errors for the code I have not written.

On Mon, 1 Apr 2024, Saasha Gupta wrote:

> Dear maintainers of the outreachy team,
>
> I have made a patch for this issue. I am able to create the patch with
> `git format-patch`.
>
> However, when I check my patch for errors using the checkpatch.pl
> script, it throws errors for the code I have not written. What should
> I do?

If you are proposing a change, you should only ensure that checkpatch is
respected by your change.  If doing that will make the code look horribly
inconsistent, you could consider making a patch series that first cleans
up everything and then another patch that makes your change.

julia

>
> Sincerely,
> Saasha
>
>