Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755222AbYJWLHI (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:07:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753013AbYJWLGz (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:06:55 -0400 Received: from bigben2.bytemark.co.uk ([80.68.81.132]:50717 "EHLO bigben2.bytemark.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752794AbYJWLGy (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:06:54 -0400 From: Andy Whitcroft To: Andrew Morton Cc: Randy Dunlap , Joel Schopp , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Subject: [PATCH 3/9] checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:06:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1224759999-21389-4-git-send-email-apw@shadowen.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.0.2.711.gf1ba4 In-Reply-To: <1224759999-21389-1-git-send-email-apw@shadowen.org> References: <1224759999-21389-1-git-send-email-apw@shadowen.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1025 Lines: 30 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 --- 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/