Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 11:57:45 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Sanidhya Solanki <jpage.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, lidza.louina@gmail.com,
        driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: dgnc: Patch includes the checkpatch fixes
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:24:16PM -0500, Sanidhya Solanki wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:02:33 +0300
> Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 03:21:49AM -0500, Sanidhya Solanki wrote:
> > > >From 1dbe78ce98037da5467d817a9db838d678b338ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Sanidhya Solanki <jpage.lkml@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:08:53 -0500
> > > Subject: [PATCH] staging: dgnc: Patch includes the checkpatch fixes
> > 
> > 
> > Don't include this stuff.
> Whenever I remove that part, the "git am" command gives me an error that
> it cannot detect patch format and the patch application fails.
> 

You first have to email the patch to yourself for git am to work.

Also you need to break the patch up into a patch series that fixes one
type of issue at a time.

regards,
dan carpenter

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