Eduardo Habkost pointed out a malformed block of comments on my
patch [1] that I had ran checkpatch.pl and no warn/error was
reported. Then I realized the script does not catch such as
case (or it had a bug).
It turns out that checkpatch.pl does not parse comment blocks (If I understood
its code correctly...). So I implemented a checker that warns about:
1. block doesn't begin on its own line.
Example:
/* blah blah
* and blah blah
*/
2. line in the block doesn't start with asterisk.
Example:
/*
foo bar
bar foo
*/
Note: only the first occurence (i.e 'foo bar') is reported.
3. block doesn't end on its own line.
Example:
/*
* blah blah
* and blah */
References:
[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg580091.html
ps: last time I wrote Perl code was about 13 years ago. That remember me
of good times. :)
Wainer dos Santos Moschetta (1):
checkpatch: check for malformed comment block.
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
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