It's quite common to have a mini comment inside braces to acknowledge
we know it's empty. Expand the inline detection to allow closing
braces before the end of line.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Lindsay <aa...@os.amperecomputing.com>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index aa9a354a0e7..db67b4da872 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1639,7 +1639,7 @@ sub process {
# Block comment styles
# Block comments use /* on a line of its own
- if ($rawline !~ m@^\+.*/\*.*\*/[ \t]*$@ && #inline /*...*/
+ if ($rawline !~ m@^\+.*/\*.*\*/[ \t)}]*$@ && #inline /*...*/
$rawline =~ m@^\+.*/\*\*?+[ \t]*[^ \t]@) { # /* or /**
non-blank
WARN("Block comments use a leading /* on a separate
line\n" . $herecurr);
}
--
2.20.1
