From: Andrew Morton WARNING: line over 80 characters #70: FILE: drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c:850: + struct pci_dev *pdev_0 = pci_get_slot(pdev->bus, pdev->devfn - 1); ERROR: else should follow close brace '}' #78: FILE: drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c:858: + } + else total: 1 errors, 1 warnings, 100 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: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c~pata_hpt37x-fix-outstanding-bug-reports-on-the-hpt374-and-37x-cable-detect-checkpatch-fixes drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c --- a/drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c~pata_hpt37x-fix-outstanding-bug-reports-on-the-hpt374-and-37x-cable-detect-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c @@ -847,15 +847,16 @@ static u32 hpt374_read_freq(struct pci_d u32 freq; unsigned long io_base = pci_resource_start(pdev, 4); if (PCI_FUNC(pdev->devfn) & 1) { - struct pci_dev *pdev_0 = pci_get_slot(pdev->bus, pdev->devfn - 1); + struct pci_dev *pdev_0; + + pdev_0 = pci_get_slot(pdev->bus, pdev->devfn - 1); /* Someone hot plugged the controller on us ? */ if (pdev_0 == NULL) return 0; io_base = pci_resource_start(pdev_0, 4); freq = inl(io_base + 0x90); pci_dev_put(pdev_0); - } - else + } else freq = inl(io_base + 0x90); return freq; } _