The patch titled checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-widen-implied-comment-detection-to-allow-multiple-stars.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: 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; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.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