The patch titled
checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-widen-implied-comment-detection-to-allow-multiple-stars.patch
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Subject: checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Some people use double star '**' as a comment continuation, and start
comments with complete lines of stars. Widen the implied comment
detection to pick these up.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-widen-implied-comment-detection-to-allow-multiple-stars scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-widen-implied-comment-detection-to-allow-multiple-stars
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ sub process {
# is the start of a diff block and this line starts
# ' *' then it is very likely a comment.
if (!defined $edge &&
- $rawlines[$linenr] =~ m@^.\s* \*(?:\s|$)@)
+ $rawlines[$linenr] =~ m@^.\s*(?:\*\*+| \*)(?:\s|$)@)
{
$in_comment = 1;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
checkpatch-add-checks-for-in_atomic.patch
checkpatch-comment-detection-may-miss-an-implied-comment-on-the-last-hunk.patch
checkpatch-widen-implied-comment-detection-to-allow-multiple-stars.patch
checkpatch-structure-member-assignments-are-not-complex.patch
checkpatch-__weak-is-an-official-attribute.patch
checkpatch-detect-multiple-bitfield-declarations.patch
checkpatch-comment-ends-inside-strings-is-most-likely-not-an-open-comment.patch
checkpatch-dissallow-spaces-between-stars-in-pointer-types.patch
checkpatch-version-025.patch
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