On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 10:30 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: [] [] And besides that, why do only this file/location? There are several hundred possible in lustre. Using: $ git ls-files -- "drivers/staging/lustre/*.[ch]" | \ xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --fix-inplace --types=line_spacing would fix just about all of them. $ git diff --shortstat drivers/staging/lustre/ 172 files changed, 267 insertions(+), 316 deletions(-)