From 83242e0c239aaa33e757584605f788ac1eca2f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:41:17 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 7c17e95bf36..a305aa52b8b 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/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; } -- 2.41.1