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From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
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covici@ccs.covici.com <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> Well, that does not sound so bad --   a lot of small things.  What is
> checkpatch.pl ? 

I think it's a test script that looks for code which doesn't follow kernel
style and programming guidelines.

You should look for it in the kernel sources.