On Mon, 2019-03-11 at 12:24 -0500, Dan Murphy wrote: > checkpatch takes issue with // in headers. > Unless they have removed that requirement. Awhile ago... commit dadf680de3c2eb4cba9840619991eda0cfe98778 Author: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Aug 2 14:04:33 2016 -0700 checkpatch: allow c99 style // comments Sanitise the lines that contain c99 comments so that the error doesn't get emitted. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d4d22c34ad7bcc1bceb52f0742f76b7a6d585235.1468368420.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>