diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
index 15cb461d6..77b546c75 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
@@ -597,7 +597,6 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	DEBUG("using driver device index %d", idx);
-
 	/* Save PCI address. */
 	mlx5_dev[idx].pci_addr = pci_dev->addr;
 	list = mlx5_glue->get_device_list(&i);
@@ -644,7 +643,6 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 		return -err;
 	}
 	ibv_dev = list[i];
-
 	DEBUG("device opened");
 	/*
 	 * Multi-packet send is supported by ConnectX-4 Lx PF as well
@@ -685,7 +683,6 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 	if (mlx5_glue->query_device_ex(attr_ctx, NULL, &device_attr))
 		goto error;
 	INFO("%u port(s) detected", device_attr.orig_attr.phys_port_cnt);
-
 	for (i = 0; i < device_attr.orig_attr.phys_port_cnt; i++) {
 		char name[RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN];
 		int len;
@@ -716,9 +713,7 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 			 pci_dev->addr.devid, pci_dev->addr.function);
 		if (device_attr.orig_attr.phys_port_cnt > 1)
 			snprintf(name + len, sizeof(name), " port %u", i);
-
 		mlx5_dev[idx].ports |= test;
-
 		if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_SECONDARY) {
 			eth_dev = rte_eth_dev_attach_secondary(name);
 			if (eth_dev == NULL) {
@@ -755,15 +750,12 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 				priv_select_tx_function(priv, eth_dev);
 			continue;
 		}
-
 		DEBUG("using port %u (%08" PRIx32 ")", port, test);
-
 		ctx = mlx5_glue->open_device(ibv_dev);
 		if (ctx == NULL) {
 			err = ENODEV;
 			goto port_error;
 		}
-
 		mlx5_glue->query_device_ex(ctx, NULL, &device_attr);
 		/* Check port status. */
 		err = mlx5_glue->query_port(ctx, port, &port_attr);
@@ -771,19 +763,16 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 			ERROR("port query failed: %s", strerror(err));
 			goto port_error;
 		}
-
 		if (port_attr.link_layer != IBV_LINK_LAYER_ETHERNET) {
 			ERROR("port %d is not configured in Ethernet mode",
 			      port);
 			err = EINVAL;
 			goto port_error;
 		}
-
 		if (port_attr.state != IBV_PORT_ACTIVE)
 			DEBUG("port %d is not active: \"%s\" (%d)",
 			      port, mlx5_glue->port_state_str(port_attr.state),
 			      port_attr.state);
-
 		/* Allocate protection domain. */
 		pd = mlx5_glue->alloc_pd(ctx);
 		if (pd == NULL) {
@@ -791,9 +780,7 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 			err = ENOMEM;
 			goto port_error;
 		}
-
 		mlx5_dev[idx].ports |= test;
-
 		/* from rte_ethdev.c */
 		priv = rte_zmalloc("ethdev private structure",
 				   sizeof(*priv),
@@ -803,7 +790,6 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 			err = ENOMEM;
 			goto port_error;
 		}
-
 		priv->ctx = ctx;
 		strncpy(priv->ibdev_path, priv->ctx->device->ibdev_path,
 			sizeof(priv->ibdev_path));
@@ -906,7 +892,6 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 		/* Get actual MTU if possible. */
 		priv_get_mtu(priv, &priv->mtu);
 		DEBUG("port %u MTU is %u", priv->port, priv->mtu);
-
 		eth_dev = rte_eth_dev_allocate(name);
 		if (eth_dev == NULL) {
 			ERROR("can not allocate rte ethdev");
@@ -929,7 +914,6 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 		claim_zero(mlx5_mac_addr_add(eth_dev, &mac, 0, 0));
 		TAILQ_INIT(&priv->flows);
 		TAILQ_INIT(&priv->ctrl_flows);
-
 		/* Hint libmlx5 to use PMD allocator for data plane resources */
 		struct mlx5dv_ctx_allocators alctr = {
 			.alloc = &mlx5_alloc_verbs_buf,
@@ -946,7 +930,6 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 		/* Store device configuration on private structure. */
 		priv->config = config;
 		continue;
-
 port_error:
 		if (priv)
 			rte_free(priv);
@@ -956,20 +939,17 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
 			claim_zero(mlx5_glue->close_device(ctx));
 		break;
 	}
-
 	/*
 	 * XXX if something went wrong in the loop above, there is a resource
 	 * leak (ctx, pd, priv, dpdk ethdev) but we can do nothing about it as
 	 * long as the dpdk does not provide a way to deallocate a ethdev and a
 	 * way to enumerate the registered ethdevs to free the previous ones.
 	 */
-
 	/* no port found, complain */
 	if (!mlx5_dev[idx].ports) {
 		err = ENODEV;
 		goto error;
 	}
-
 error:
 	if (attr_ctx)
 		claim_zero(mlx5_glue->close_device(attr_ctx));
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c
index 9bbf1eb7d..5c43755d0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c
@@ -403,7 +403,6 @@ mlx5_dev_infos_get(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_dev_info *info)
 	char ifname[IF_NAMESIZE];
 
 	info->pci_dev = RTE_ETH_DEV_TO_PCI(dev);
-
 	priv_lock(priv);
 	/* FIXME: we should ask the device for these values. */
 	info->min_rx_bufsize = 32;
@@ -492,7 +491,6 @@ mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gset(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	int link_speed = 0;
 
 	/* priv_lock() is not taken to allow concurrent calls. */
-
 	if (priv_ifreq(priv, SIOCGIFFLAGS, &ifr)) {
 		WARN("ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS) failed: %s", strerror(errno));
 		return -1;
@@ -838,7 +836,6 @@ mlx5_dev_get_flow_ctrl(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_fc_conf *fc_conf)
 		     strerror(ret));
 		goto out;
 	}
-
 	fc_conf->autoneg = ethpause.autoneg;
 	if (ethpause.rx_pause && ethpause.tx_pause)
 		fc_conf->mode = RTE_FC_FULL;
@@ -849,7 +846,6 @@ mlx5_dev_get_flow_ctrl(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_fc_conf *fc_conf)
 	else
 		fc_conf->mode = RTE_FC_NONE;
 	ret = 0;
-
 out:
 	priv_unlock(priv);
 	assert(ret >= 0);
@@ -890,7 +886,6 @@ mlx5_dev_set_flow_ctrl(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_fc_conf *fc_conf)
 		ethpause.tx_pause = 1;
 	else
 		ethpause.tx_pause = 0;
-
 	priv_lock(priv);
 	if (priv_ifreq(priv, SIOCETHTOOL, &ifr)) {
 		ret = errno;
@@ -900,7 +895,6 @@ mlx5_dev_set_flow_ctrl(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct rte_eth_fc_conf *fc_conf)
 		goto out;
 	}
 	ret = 0;
-
 out:
 	priv_unlock(priv);
 	assert(ret >= 0);
@@ -1155,7 +1149,6 @@ priv_dev_interrupt_handler_install(struct priv *priv, struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 		rte_intr_callback_register(&priv->intr_handle,
 					   mlx5_dev_interrupt_handler, dev);
 	}
-
 	rc = priv_socket_init(priv);
 	if (!rc && priv->primary_socket) {
 		priv->intr_handle_socket.fd = priv->primary_socket;
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mr.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mr.c
index 8748ddcf5..6624d0ffa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mr.c
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ mlx5_check_mempool(struct rte_mempool *mp, uintptr_t *start,
 	rte_mempool_mem_iter(mp, mlx5_check_mempool_cb, &data);
 	*start = (uintptr_t)data.start;
 	*end = (uintptr_t)data.end;
-
 	return data.ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rss.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rss.c
index d06b0bee1..8f5c8beff 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rss.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rss.c
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ priv_rss_reta_index_resize(struct priv *priv, unsigned int reta_size)
 		return ENOMEM;
 	priv->reta_idx = mem;
 	priv->reta_idx_n = reta_size;
-
 	if (old_size < reta_size)
 		memset(&(*priv->reta_idx)[old_size], 0,
 		       (reta_size - old_size) *
@@ -191,7 +190,6 @@ priv_dev_rss_reta_update(struct priv *priv,
 	ret = priv_rss_reta_index_resize(priv, reta_size);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
-
 	for (idx = 0, i = 0; (i != reta_size); ++i) {
 		idx = i / RTE_RETA_GROUP_SIZE;
 		pos = i % RTE_RETA_GROUP_SIZE;
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c
index 6924202cc..320a12be9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c
@@ -1067,7 +1067,6 @@ mlx5_priv_rxq_get(struct priv *priv, uint16_t idx)
 		rxq_ctrl = container_of((*priv->rxqs)[idx],
 					struct mlx5_rxq_ctrl,
 					rxq);
-
 		mlx5_priv_rxq_ibv_get(priv, idx);
 		rte_atomic32_inc(&rxq_ctrl->refcnt);
 		DEBUG("%p: Rx queue %p: refcnt %d", (void *)priv,
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_vlan.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_vlan.c
index 75c345626..85ed546cb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_vlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_vlan.c
@@ -120,14 +120,12 @@ priv_vlan_strip_queue_set(struct priv *priv, uint16_t idx, int on)
 		.flags_mask = IBV_WQ_FLAGS_CVLAN_STRIPPING,
 		.flags = vlan_offloads,
 	};
-
 	err = mlx5_glue->modify_wq(rxq_ctrl->ibv->wq, &mod);
 	if (err) {
 		ERROR("%p: failed to modified stripping mode: %s",
 		      (void *)priv, strerror(err));
 		return;
 	}
-
 	/* Update related bits in RX queue. */
 	rxq->vlan_strip = !!on;
 }
@@ -152,13 +150,11 @@ mlx5_vlan_strip_queue_set(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint16_t queue, int on)
 		ERROR("VLAN stripping is not supported");
 		return;
 	}
-
 	/* Validate queue number */
 	if (queue >= priv->rxqs_n) {
 		ERROR("VLAN stripping, invalid queue number %d", queue);
 		return;
 	}
-
 	priv_lock(priv);
 	priv_vlan_strip_queue_set(priv, queue, on);
 	priv_unlock(priv);
@@ -186,13 +182,11 @@ mlx5_vlan_offload_set(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, int mask)
 			ERROR("VLAN stripping is not supported");
 			return 0;
 		}
-
 		/* Run on every RX queue and set/reset VLAN stripping. */
 		priv_lock(priv);
 		for (i = 0; (i != priv->rxqs_n); i++)
 			priv_vlan_strip_queue_set(priv, i, hw_vlan_strip);
 		priv_unlock(priv);
 	}
-
 	return 0;
 }
