On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 19:09 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

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diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c

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@@ -7044,7 +7044,7 @@ static void raid5_status(struct seq_file *seq, struct mddev *mddev)

 			   rdev && test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) ? "U" : "_");
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-	seq_printf (seq, "]");
+	seq_puts(seq, "]");

seq_putc

How do you think about the possibility that the script "checkpatch.pl" can also point
such a source code transformation out directly?

Why don't _you_ try to implement that in checkpatch instead?