Re: Fix files with checkpatch errors/warnings

Cyril Roelandt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-newbie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/22/2011 01:49 AM, Alejandro del Rio wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm completely new to linux kernel development and I would like to
> make a very first contribution by "cleaning" some files. I noticed
> that the script checkpatch.pl (inside scripts/ folder) report lots of
> style errors on some drivers.
> For example try running ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file
> drivers/video/*, you will notice that most of the files contain style
> issues.
>
> My questions are: Is people actively fixing this? Maybe they are not
> very interested on fixing this typos... Otherwise, could I contribute
> by submitting patches on this?
> And finally, if I do so, to who should I show this fixes?

Maybe you could help the Kernel Janitors :

http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors
http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#kernel-janitors

They "go through the linux kernel sources, doing code reviews, fixing up
unmaintained code and doing other cleanups and API conversion."

Cyril.
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