From: Andrew Morton ERROR: space required before the open parenthesis '(' #70: FILE: ipc/util.c:136: + if(seq_limit > USHORT_MAX) total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 51 lines checked ./patches/ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others.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: "Pierre Peiffer" Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" Cc: Nadia Derbey Cc: Zhang Yanmin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- ipc/util.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN ipc/util.c~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others-checkpatch-fixes ipc/util.c --- a/ipc/util.c~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/ipc/util.c @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ void ipc_init_ids(struct ipc_ids *ids) ids->seq = 0; { int seq_limit = INT_MAX/SEQ_MULTIPLIER; - if(seq_limit > USHORT_MAX) + if (seq_limit > USHORT_MAX) ids->seq_max = USHORT_MAX; else ids->seq_max = seq_limit; _