From: Andrew Morton ERROR: need spaces around that '=' (ctx:VxV) #101: FILE: drivers/watchdog/wdt.c:237: + c=inb_p(WDT_RT); ^ total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 93 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 Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/watchdog/wdt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/watchdog/wdt.c~wdt-fix-locking-checkpatch-fixes drivers/watchdog/wdt.c --- a/drivers/watchdog/wdt.c~wdt-fix-locking-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/drivers/watchdog/wdt.c @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static int wdt_get_temperature(int *temp unsigned long flags; spin_lock_irqsave(&wdt_lock, flags); - c=inb_p(WDT_RT); + c = inb_p(WDT_RT); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wdt_lock, flags); *temperature = (c * 11 / 15) + 7; return 0; _