CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around '!ret_val'
#45: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c:592:
+	if (((eeprom->offset + eeprom->len) & 1) && (!ret_val)) {

ERROR: trailing whitespace
#50: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c:597:
+^I$

total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 1 checks, 22 lines checked

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Commit 6b562c34296f ("e1000e: limit endianness conversion to boundary words") has style problems, please review.

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