From: Andrew Morton WARNING: no space between function name and open parenthesis '(' #42: FILE: drivers/pci/dmar.c:268: + printk (KERN_WARNING PREFIX "Invalid DMAR haw\n"); total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 42 lines checked Your patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/pci/dmar.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/pci/dmar.c~more-sanity-checks-for-dmar-checkpatch-fixes drivers/pci/dmar.c --- a/drivers/pci/dmar.c~more-sanity-checks-for-dmar-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/drivers/pci/dmar.c @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ parse_dmar_table(void) return -ENODEV; if (dmar->width < PAGE_SHIFT_4K - 1) { - printk (KERN_WARNING PREFIX "Invalid DMAR haw\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX "Invalid DMAR haw\n"); return -EINVAL; } _