> 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.