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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v3] wireless-drivers: rtnetlink wifi simulation device
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Sergey Matyukevich
> <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com> wrote:
>> Hi Cody,
>>
>>> drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 7 +
>>> drivers/net/wireless/Makefile | 2 +
>>> drivers/net/wireless/virt_wifi.c | 618 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 3 files changed, 627 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/virt_wifi.c
>>
>> I did a quick check of your patch using checkpatch kernel tool,
>> here is a summary of its output:
>>
>> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict test.patch
>> ...
>> total: 165 errors, 428 warnings, 9 checks, 634 lines checked
>>
>> Most part of those complaints is about either whitespaces or code
>> idents. I am not sure whether this is a patch itself or email client.
>> So could you please take a look and run checkpatch on your side.
>>
>
> Yeah, it could be his email client, weird though because if I pull the
> patch from the kernel.org archive's mbox though, I don't get any
> errors except the MAINTAINERS file thing:
>
> wget https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181004195906.201895-1-schuffelen@google.com/raw
> -O /tmp/tmp.patch
> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict /tmp/tmp.patch
>
> WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?
> #167:
> new file mode 100644
>
> total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 checks, 634 lines checked
>

FWIW, the X-Mailer on the patch is: git-send-email 2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog

So I am guessing this is some issue with the way the patch was
generated, or something else. Cody, care to share the steps you used
to generate and send the patch?

- Joel

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