Re: [PATCH] staging: kernel: fixed style errors in pid.c

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 15:27 +0900, Joshua I. James wrote:
> Fixed style errors identified by checkpatch.

Your subject is not correct.

This is not staging.

Please submit patches only for drivers/staging until
until you are _very_ familiar with kernel style.

And most whitespace only changes to kernel/... are not
particularly welcomed by the most experienced kernel
developers.

> diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
[]
> @@ -471,8 +478,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_task_pid);
>  struct task_struct *get_pid_task(struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type)
>  {
>  	struct task_struct *result;
> +
>  	rcu_read_lock();
>  	result = pid_task(pid, type);
> +

Unnecessary blank line added here.

btw: using scripts/checkpatch.pl --fix-inplace --strict
would have been better.