The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: allow reporting C99 style comments has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-allow-reporting-c99-style-comments.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: allow reporting C99 style comments Presently C99 style comments are removed unconditionally before actual patch validity check happens. This is a problem for some third party projects which use checkpatch.pl but do not allow C99 style comments. This patch adds yet another variable, named C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE. If it is included in the --ignore command line or config file options list, C99 comments in the patch are reported as errors. Tested by processing a patch with a C99 style comment, it passes the check just fine unless '--ignore C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE' is present in .checkpatch.conf. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190110224957.25008-1-vbendeb@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-reporting-c99-style-comments +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ my $codespellfile = "/usr/share/codespel my $conststructsfile = "$D/const_structs.checkpatch"; my $typedefsfile = ""; my $color = "auto"; -my $allow_c99_comments = 1; +my $allow_c99_comments = 1; # Can be overridden by --ignore C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE sub help { my ($exitcode) = @_; @@ -1021,6 +1021,7 @@ if ($git) { } my $vname; +$allow_c99_comments = !defined $ignore_type{"C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE"}; for my $filename (@ARGV) { my $FILE; if ($git) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vbendeb@xxxxxxxxxxxx are