Commit 83242e0c authored Jan 06, 2009 by Andy Whitcroft Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 06, 2009

checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars



Some people use double star '**' as a comment continuation, and start
comments with complete lines of stars.  Widen the implied comment
detection to pick these up.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 721c1cb6

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ sub process {
		# is the start of a diff block and this line starts
		# ' *' then it is very likely a comment.
		if (!defined $edge &&
		$rawlines[$linenr] =~ m@^.\s* \*(?:\s\|$)@)
		$rawlines[$linenr] =~ m@^.\s(?:\\+\| \)(?:\s\|$)@)
		{
		$in_comment = 1;
		}