On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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. > > > > Thank you very much for this explanation. Best regards, Rolf
