On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 15:13 +0100, Rolf Evers-Fischer wrote: > Hello, > I've just checked the file drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c, using > checkpatch.pl, but I forgot the '-f' option (for file). > > Surprisingly the checkpatch script reported a misspelling: > > "WARNING: 'additionaly' may be misspelled - perhaps 'additionally'? > #417: > * We enable TRIG_GRANU for RX and TX and additionaly we set" > > Additionally it reported that the file does not appear to be a > unified-diff (due to my mistake). > > Running checkpatch again with '-f', it didn't report any problems: > > "drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c has no obvious style problems and is > ready for submission." > > Is this a bug in checkpatch.pl? Or is it a feature?
feature. kinda. checkpatch reports spelling errors in commit messages. Without the -f, checkpatch is reading its input as a commit message before expecting to find a diff/patch.
