From: Andrew Morton WARNING: no space between function name and open parenthesis '(' #370: FILE: include/linux/ext3_fs.h:806: +extern struct inode *ext3_iget (struct super_block *, unsigned long); total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 312 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: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Cc: David Howells Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/ext3_fs.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/ext3_fs.h~iget-stop-ext3-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try-checkpatch-fixes include/linux/ext3_fs.h --- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h~iget-stop-ext3-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-try-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ int ext3_get_blocks_handle(handle_t *han sector_t iblock, unsigned long maxblocks, struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create, int extend_disksize); -extern struct inode *ext3_iget (struct super_block *, unsigned long); +extern struct inode *ext3_iget(struct super_block *, unsigned long); extern int ext3_write_inode (struct inode *, int); extern int ext3_setattr (struct dentry *, struct iattr *); extern void ext3_delete_inode (struct inode *); _