Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760033Ab2JLSYB (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:24:01 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f174.google.com ([209.85.223.174]:54171 "EHLO mail-ie0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759921Ab2JLSYA (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:24:00 -0400 Message-ID: <5078603C.9010709@lwfinger.net> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:23:56 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120825 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Whitcroft CC: LKML Subject: Spurious warning in checkpatch.pl? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 606 Lines: 19 Andy, The checkpatch.pl version in mainline is issuing what I think are false warnings of the type WARNING: networking block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line #93: FILE: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h:208: + u32 rf_rb; /* rflssi_readback */ Is a trailing comment for the member of a struct not allowed? Thanks, Larry -- 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/