> On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 13:59 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -3000,7 +3000,7 @@ sub process {
>
> $realline_next = $line_nr_next;
> if (defined $realline_next &&
> (!defined $lines[$realline_next - 1] ||
> - substr($lines[$realline_next - 1], $off_next) =~
> /^\s*$/)) {
> + substr($lines[$realline_next - 1], $off_next) =~
> /^($;|\s)*$/)) {
> $realline_next++;
> }
This doesn't work with c99 comments like:
int foo; // comment
EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); // comment
but then again, there aren't any uses like that in the
kernel tree so it almost certainly doesn't matter.
Thanks Andy.