On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:31:20AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > It's not clear to me what you are asking checkpatch to do here. > > It may be reasonable for checkpatch to invoke kernel-doc on some > portion of a patch, but I'm not sure how valuable it will be. I was just hoping to match: * Returns: Or to quote it properly for regexes ... ^ +\* *Returns: (I think ...) I can't see that matching C or assembler.