When checkpatch.pl is invoked with "--ignore C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE", it
reports C99-style comments found in the code, by matching on the
double-slash pattern "//". This includes the leading slashes before the
SPDX tags that are now used in a majority of C files.
Such tags are commented with the double-slash on purpose, and should not
trigger errors from checkpatch. Let's ignore them when searching for
C99-style comments to report.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quen...@isovalent.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3cacc122c528..67f350c580ea 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3983,7 +3983,10 @@ sub process {
}
# no C99 // comments
- if ($line =~ m{//}) {
+ if ($line =~ m{//} &&
+ !($rawline =~ m{// SPDX-License-Identifier:} &&
+ $realfile =~ /\.c$/ &&
+ $realline == $checklicenseline)) {
if (ERROR("C99_COMMENTS",
"do not use C99 // comments\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
--
2.20.1
