From: Andrew Morton ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #28: FILE: fs/dcache.c:1782: +static char * __d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt, total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 36 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: Jan Blunck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/dcache.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/dcache.c~one-less-parameter-to-__d_path-checkpatch-fixes fs/dcache.c --- a/fs/dcache.c~one-less-parameter-to-__d_path-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/fs/dcache.c @@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@ shouldnt_be_hashed: * * "buflen" should be positive. Caller holds the dcache_lock. */ -static char * __d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt, +static char *__d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt, struct path *root, char *buffer, int buflen) { char * end = buffer+buflen; _