To avoid false positives in presence of SPDX-License-Identifier in networking files it is required to increase the leeway for empty block comment lines by one line.
Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelm...@samsung.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index a213cdb82ab0..60e10da4cccb 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3460,7 +3460,7 @@ sub process { if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ && $prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*[ \t]*$/ && $rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\*/ && - $realline > 2) { + $realline > 3) { WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE", "networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...\n" . $hereprev); } -- 2.26.2