On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 13:48 +0100, Federico Vaga wrote: > Hello, > > Recently I have produce a couple of patches but I get different warnings if I > run checkpatch on the file (-f) or if I run it of a patch file. In > particular, > the problem I found is with the spell checker which seems to run only when > the > option '-f' is not used. I am wandering if there are other similar cases. > > I do not know Perl, so I cannot investigate more, but I have a practical > example. I have this simple patch applied on my tree that introduces a spell > error:
If you want spelling fixes on files you have to use --strict > > From: Federico Vaga <federico.v...@cern.ch> > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:29:39 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] script: checkpatch: buggy(?) output with -f option > > Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.v...@cern.ch> > --- > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ocores.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ocores.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ocores.c > index b32d67c..f4deb90 100644 > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ocores.c > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ocores.c > @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int ocores_poll_wait(struct ocores_i2c *i2c) > /* on going transfer */ > mask = OCI2C_STAT_TIP; > /* > - * We wait for the data to be transferred (8bit), > + * We wait for the data to be transfered (8bit), > * then we start polling on the ACK/NACK bit > */ > udelay((8 * 1000) / i2c->bus_clock_khz);
