Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Andy Whitcroft <> | Subject | [PATCH 3/9] checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:06:33 +0100 |
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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> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index beae539..c28c20c 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; } -- 1.6.0.2.711.gf1ba4
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