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author | Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com> | 2020-10-16 06:12:25 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-16 21:11:21 +0300 |
commit | c70735c23bf6cbfc9d7dad5f4ad562f0e40a89fa (patch) | |
tree | 1e543d1a4b95bb3a52016c25c243b7d3dfd67f83 /scripts | |
parent | 2e44e8033a9bc0420f315c32843ab89c0fc7bd0f (diff) | |
download | linux-c70735c23bf6cbfc9d7dad5f4ad562f0e40a89fa.tar.xz |
checkpatch: fix false positive on empty block comment lines
To avoid false positives in presence of SPDX-License-Identifier in
networking files it is required to increase the leeway for empty block
comment lines by one line.
For example, checking drivers/net/loopback.c which starts with
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
/*
* INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX
rsults in an unnecessary warning
WARNING: networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...
+/*
+ * INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX
Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Bartłomiej Żolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.co>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201006083509.19934-1-l.stelmach@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 8a5f0367a2f1..e1ddcafdc176 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3464,7 +3464,7 @@ sub process { if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ && $prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*[ \t]*$/ && $rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\*/ && - $realline > 2) { + $realline > 3) { # Do not warn about the initial copyright comment block after SPDX-License-Identifier WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE", "networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...\n" . $hereprev); } |