linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: align comments

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Date:   Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:38:40 +0100
From:   Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: align comments

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 01:15:34AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 20:48 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > You need to have a space character after the '*'.
> 
> Perhaps YA checkpatch test...
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index f42e5ba16d9b..0de553d52605 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3876,6 +3876,21 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> +# Independent comment lines should have a space after the comment initiator
> +		if ($line =~ /^\+[ \t]*($;+)/) {		#leading comment
> +			my $comment = trim(substr($rawline, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1]));
> +			if ($comment =~ m{^(/\*|\*/|\*|//)(.*)}) {
> +				my $init = $1;
> +				my $rest = $2;
> +				if ($init =~ m{^(?:/\*|\*|//)$} &&
> +				    $rest ne '' &&
> +				    $rest !~ /^[\s\*=\-]/) {
> +					WARN("COMMENT_STYLE",
> +					     "Comments generally use whitespace after the comment initiator\n" . $herecurr);
> +				}
> +			}
> +		}
> +
>  # check for missing blank lines after struct/union declarations
>  # with exceptions for various attributes and macros
>  		if ($prevline =~ /^[\+ ]};?\s*$/ &&
> 

Thank you Joe, it works fine. I've just tested it for my particular need but 
I hope it's going to be merged in the mainline if other people will find it useful:)