From: Andrew Morton ERROR: trailing whitespace #31: FILE: drivers/acpi/video.c:1276: +^I$ total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 37 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: "Li, Shaohua" Cc: Len Brown Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: Thomas Renninger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/acpi/video.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/video.c~acpi-ignore-acpi-video-devices-that-arent-present-in-hardware-checkpatch-fixes drivers/acpi/video.c --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c~acpi-ignore-acpi-video-devices-that-arent-present-in-hardware-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/drivers/acpi/video.c @@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_add_fs(struct struct proc_dir_entry *entry = NULL; struct acpi_video_bus *video; struct device *dev; - + status = acpi_evaluate_integer(device->handle, "_ADR", NULL, &device_id); _