checkpatch is unhappy about this line: WARNING: Block comments use a leading /* on a separate line #50: FILE: hw/acpi/nvdimm.c:1074: + aml_equal(aml_sizeof(pckg), aml_int(1)) /* 1 element? */));
but there's nothing wrong with it - the check is just too simplistic. It will also miss lines which mix inline and block comments. Instead, let's strip all inline comments from a line and then check for block comments. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> --- changes from v1: indendation fixes (in script itself) scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index e3e3b43076..bc7d4780ec 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1681,8 +1681,10 @@ sub process { # Block comment styles # Block comments use /* on a line of its own - if ($rawline !~ m@^\+.*/\*.*\*/[ \t)}]*$@ && #inline /*...*/ - $rawline =~ m@^\+.*/\*\*?+[ \t]*[^ \t]@) { # /* or /** non-blank + my $commentline = $rawline; + while ($commentline =~ s@^(\+.*)/\*.*\*/@$1@o) { # remove inline #inline /*...*/ + } + if ($commentline =~ m@^\+.*/\*\*?+[ \t]*[^ \t]@) { # /* or /** non-blank WARN("Block comments use a leading /* on a separate line\n" . $herecurr); } -- MST