The patch titled checkpatch: handle comment/quote nesting correctly has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-handle-comment-quote-nesting-correctly.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: handle comment/quote nesting correctly From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Ensure that a close comment cannot incorrectly trigger in the middle of a string. Reported by Jaswinder Singh. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-handle-comment-quote-nesting-correctly scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-handle-comment-quote-nesting-correctly +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ sub sanitise_line { $off++; next; } - if (substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') { + if ($sanitise_quote eq '*/' && substr($line, $off, 2) eq '*/') { $sanitise_quote = ''; substr($res, $off, 2, "$;$;"); $off++; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-hugetlbc-make-functions-static-use-null-rather-than-0.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