Re: checkpatch: ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff formatpatch

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:28:00PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> scripts/checkpatch.pl doesn't seem to like this patch:
> 
> $ scripts/checkpatch.pl m68k-export-asm-cachectl-h.diff 
> ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch
>...
> --- a/include/asm-m68k/Kbuild
> +++ b/include/asm-m68k/Kbuild
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
>... ^^

Broken patch, this has to be "-1,1".

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert

cu
Adrian

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