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| author | Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> | 2009-01-06 23:41:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-07 00:59:15 +0100 |
| commit | 83242e0c239aaa33e757584605f788ac1eca2f0f (patch) | |
| tree | fa114470eebf1bb00dc97ad6a0620a5f5cc4d308 /scripts/checkpatch.pl | |
| parent | checkpatch: comment detection may miss an implied comment on the last hunk (diff) | |
| download | linux-83242e0c239aaa33e757584605f788ac1eca2f0f.tar.xz linux-83242e0c239aaa33e757584605f788ac1eca2f0f.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 7c17e95bf36f..a305aa52b8b1 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -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; } |