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git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jeffrin/linux-2.6/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 1806930, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (278260/278260), done.
Receiving objects:  14% (255365/1806930), 117.83 MiB | 127 KiB/s
Resolving deltas: 100% (1513210/1513210), done.

$cd linux-2.6
$./scripts/ge
genksyms/          get_maintainer.pl

$./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file sound/ac97_bus.c
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
$ git branch jeffrin
$ git branch
  jeffrin
* master
$ git checkout jeffrin
Switched to branch 'jeffrin'
$
$git status
# On branch jeffrin
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
$
$./scripts/checkpatch.pl
checkpatch.pl: no input files
$./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file --terse sound/ac97_bus.c
sound/ac97_bus.c:22: WARNING: line over 80 characters
sound/ac97_bus.c:75: WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately
follow its function/variable
total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 77 lines checked


$vim sound/ac97_bus.c +22
$./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file --terse sound/ac97_bus.c
sound/ac97_bus.c:22: ERROR: trailing whitespace
sound/ac97_bus.c:75: WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately
follow its function/variable
total: 1 errors, 1 warnings, 77 lines checked
$vim sound/ac97_bus.c +22
$./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file --terse sound/ac97_bus.c
sound/ac97_bus.c:75: WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately
follow its function/variable
total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 77 lines checked
$vim sound/ac97_bus.c +75


$git status
# On branch jeffrin
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#	modified:   sound/ac97_bus.c
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
$git diff
diff --git a/sound/ac97_bus.c b/sound/ac97_bus.c
index a351dd0..c93251a 100644
--- a/sound/ac97_bus.c
+++ b/sound/ac97_bus.c
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@

 /*
  * Let drivers decide whether they want to support given codec from their
- * probe method.  Drivers have direct access to the struct snd_ac97 structure and may
- * decide based on the id field amongst other things.
- */
+ * probe method. Drivers have direct access to the struct snd_ac97
+ * structure and may  decide based on the id field amongst other things.
+*/
 static int ac97_bus_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
 {
        return 1;
$



$git commit sound/ac97_bus.c
[jeffrin a2c2867] sound: Fixed line limit issue in sound/ac97_bus.c
This is a patch to the sound/ac97_bus.c file that fixes up a 80
character line limit issue found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
Signed-off-by: Jeffrin Jose
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
$git show HEAD
commit a2c2867876c246420a199a0fb4c36ad2965a42cc
Author: Jeffrin Jose
Date:   Mon Dec 6 19:27:53 2010 +0530

    sound: Fixed line limit issue in sound/ac97_bus.c
    This is a patch to the sound/ac97_bus.c file that fixes up a 80 character
    line limit issue found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
    Signed-off-by: Jeffrin Jose

diff --git a/sound/ac97_bus.c b/sound/ac97_bus.c
index a351dd0..c93251a 100644
--- a/sound/ac97_bus.c
+++ b/sound/ac97_bus.c
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@

 /*
  * Let drivers decide whether they want to support given codec from their
- * probe method.  Drivers have direct access to the struct snd_ac97 structure and may
- * decide based on the id field amongst other things.
- */
+ * probe method. Drivers have direct access to the struct snd_ac97
+ * structure and may  decide based on the id field amongst other things.
+*/
 static int ac97_bus_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
 {
        return 1;
$git format-patch master..jeffrin
0001-sound-Fixed-line-limit-issue-in-sound-ac97_bus.c.patch
$./scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-sound-Fixed-line-limit-issue-in-sound-ac97_bus.c.patch
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 12 lines checked

0001-sound-Fixed-line-limit-issue-in-sound-ac97_bus.c.patch has no obvious style
problems and is ready for submission.
$