From: Andrew Morton WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '(' #135: FILE: drivers/video/backlight/kb3886_bl.c:161: + if (IS_ERR (kb3886_backlight_device)) total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 104 lines checked ./patches/backlight-driver-for-tabletkiosk-sahara-touchit-213-tablet-pc-update-2.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: Claudio Nieder Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/video/backlight/kb3886_bl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/video/backlight/kb3886_bl.c~backlight-driver-for-tabletkiosk-sahara-touchit-213-tablet-pc-update-2-checkpatch-fixes drivers/video/backlight/kb3886_bl.c --- a/drivers/video/backlight/kb3886_bl.c~backlight-driver-for-tabletkiosk-sahara-touchit-213-tablet-pc-update-2-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/drivers/video/backlight/kb3886_bl.c @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int kb3886bl_probe(struct platfor kb3886_backlight_device = backlight_device_register("kb3886-bl", &pdev->dev, NULL, &kb3886bl_ops); - if (IS_ERR (kb3886_backlight_device)) + if (IS_ERR(kb3886_backlight_device)) return PTR_ERR(kb3886_backlight_device); platform_set_drvdata(pdev, kb3886_backlight_device); _