The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: always check block comment styles has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-always-check-block-comment-styles.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-always-check-block-comment-styles.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-always-check-block-comment-styles.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: always check block comment styles Some of the block comment tests that are used only for networking are appropriate for all patches. For example, these styles are not encouraged: /* block comment without introductory * */ and /* * block comment with line terminating */ Remove the networking specific test and add comments. There are some infrequent false positives where code is lazily commented out using /* and */ rather than using #if 0/#endif blocks like: /* case foo: case bar: */ case baz: Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-always-check-block-comment-styles scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-always-check-block-comment-styles +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2751,6 +2751,8 @@ sub process { } } +# Block comment styles +# Networking with an initial /* if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ && $prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*[ \t]*$/ && $rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\*/ && @@ -2759,22 +2761,23 @@ sub process { "networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...\n" . $hereprev); } - if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ && - $prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*/ && #starting /* +# Block comments use * on subsequent lines + if ($prevline =~ /$;[ \t]*$/ && #ends in comment + $prevrawline =~ /^\+.*?\/\*/ && #starting /* $prevrawline !~ /\*\/[ \t]*$/ && #no trailing */ $rawline =~ /^\+/ && #line is new $rawline !~ /^\+[ \t]*\*/) { #no leading * - WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE", - "networking block comments start with * on subsequent lines\n" . $hereprev); + WARN("BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE", + "Block comments use * on subsequent lines\n" . $hereprev); } - if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ && - $rawline !~ m@^\+[ \t]*\*/[ \t]*$@ && #trailing */ +# Block comments use */ on trailing lines + if ($rawline !~ m@^\+[ \t]*\*/[ \t]*$@ && #trailing */ $rawline !~ m@^\+.*/\*.*\*/[ \t]*$@ && #inline /*...*/ $rawline !~ m@^\+.*\*{2,}/[ \t]*$@ && #trailing **/ $rawline =~ m@^\+[ \t]*.+\*\/[ \t]*$@) { #non blank */ - WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE", - "networking block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line\n" . $herecurr); + WARN("BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE", + "Block comments use a trailing */ on a separate line\n" . $herecurr); } # check for missing blank lines after struct/union declarations _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are lindent-handle-missing-indent-gracefully.patch ocfs2-neaten-do_error-ocfs2_error-and-ocfs2_abort.patch mm-slab_common-allow-null-cache-pointer-in-kmem_cache_destroy.patch mm-mempool-allow-null-pool-pointer-in-mempool_destroy.patch mm-dmapool-allow-null-pool-pointer-in-dma_pool_destroy.patch procfs-always-expose-proc-pid-map_files-and-make-it-readable.patch procfs-always-expose-proc-pid-map_files-and-make-it-readable-fix.patch procfs-always-expose-proc-pid-map_files-and-make-it-readable-fix-fix.patch parse_integer-add-checkpatchpl-notice.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch checkpatch-warn-on-bare-sha-1-commit-ids-in-commit-logs.patch checkpatch-add-warning-on-bug-bug_on-use.patch checkpatch-improve-suspect_code_indent-test.patch checkpatch-allow-longer-declaration-macros.patch checkpatch-add-some-foo_destroy-functions-to-needless_if-tests.patch checkpatch-report-the-right-line-when-using-emacs-and-file.patch checkpatch-always-check-block-comment-styles.patch hfs-fix-b-tree-corruption-after-insertion-at-position-0.patch seq_file-provide-an-analogue-of-print_hex_dump.patch crypto-qat-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch parisc-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch zcrypt-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch kmemleak-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch wil6210-use-seq_hex_dump-to-dump-buffers.patch linux-next.patch fs-seq_file-convert-int-seq_vprint-seq_printf-etc-returns-to-void.patch fs-seq_file-convert-int-seq_vprint-seq_printf-etc-returns-to-void-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html