On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 09:59:31PM +0200, Avraham Shukron wrote: > > > > This kind of change is definitely not helpful. The original table was > > Nx16, you converted it to Nx14. Why do you think original table used 16 > > columns? > > > > Regardless, it's a very old driver, just let it be. > > > > Thanks. > > > > I can make it Nx8 :) > > Seriously now - I don't understand what is so wrong with checkpatch fixes? > I'm a new to kernel development, and the natural place to start is to do some > coding style fixes.
Start doing this in the drivers/staging/ portion of the kernel. Other places usually do not want these types of changes for the reasons people have given you already. That is what drivers/staging/ is for, to learn the process. Please stick to it there. thanks, greg k-h