I have written one sample chardriver. I want to verify that coding style is matching with linux kernel coding style or not.
I did this:
root@vkalyanam-Lenovo-B41-80:~/linux/scripts# ./checkpatch.pl --no-tree --fix mychardriver.c
ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch
total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 lines checked
mychardriver.c has style problems, please review.
NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Could you help me to resolve above error about unified-diff format patch. My exact requirement is to validate my own char driver file is matching with linux kernel coding style or not.