linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/9] checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars

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Message-Id: <1224759999-21389-4-git-send-email-apw@shadowen.org>
Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:06:33 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/9] 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 <apw@...dowen.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index beae539..c28c20c 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;
 			}
-- 
1.6.0.2.711.gf1ba4

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