The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: allow c99 style // comments has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: 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> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ my $spelling_file = "$D/spelling.txt"; my $codespell = 0; my $codespellfile = "/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt"; my $color = 1; +my $allow_c99_comments = 1; sub help { my ($exitcode) = @_; @@ -1144,6 +1145,11 @@ sub sanitise_line { $res =~ s@(\#\s*(?:error|warning)\s+).*@$1$clean@; } + if ($allow_c99_comments && $res =~ m@(//.*$)@) { + my $match = $1; + $res =~ s/\Q$match\E/"$;" x length($match)/e; + } + return $res; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are -- 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