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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUi09MEU+AUE7C5OtJzO1ZiQ-1OVVi9EWNxt7vHA3ZvVw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 09:42:58 +0200
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>, Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>, 
	Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>, 
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: uapi: Strip comments before size type check

Hi Nathan,

On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 at 20:02, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 03:20:52PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 at 14:40, Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > > On Okt 06 2025, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > --- a/usr/include/headers_check.pl
> > > > +++ b/usr/include/headers_check.pl
> > > > @@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ sub check_sizetypes
> > > >       if (my $included = ($line =~ /^\s*#\s*include\s+[<"](\S+)[>"]/)[0]) {
> > > >               check_include_typesh($included);
> > > >       }
> > > > +     # strip comments (single-line only)
> > > > +     $line =~ s@\/\*.*?\*\/@@;
> > >
> > > I don't think you need to quote the forward slashes in the regexp.
> >
> > Thanks, you are right!
> >
> > So far for not just following my instinct, but looking for similar functionality
> > in other scripts like scripts/kernel-doc.pl...
>
> I will fix this up when applying. I think I am going to adjust the
> comment to
>
>   # strip single-line comments, as types may be referenced within them
>
> just to be a little more verbose about why it is being done.

OK, thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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