How to create patch for checkpatch.pl cleanups

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:00 PM, kashyap gada [off-list ref] wrote:

Hello Linux Newbies, I'm one too. I was looking out for some clean up work
and I ran the checkpatch.pl script. I came across a file with some 400
errors and 200 warnings. Now there were bunch of 80 char per line warning ,
braces and related things. I don't want to be sending patches for each and
every error or warning I fix as it becomes tedious and If i send lots of
correction patches in one go the kernel maintainers wont accept it. I want
to know Can we correct all similar errors or warnings in one patch? or
series of patches?

Regarding 80 chars per line issues, people are discussing right now
on increasing the limit to 100. See [1].

For the other issues, just send a patch with all the changes. It should
be fine since you are modifying one single file.

thanks,
Daniel.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/5/141