It's very common to have normal block comments for the initial
comments of a file description preface.
So for files in drivers/net and net/ don't emit a warning when
the first comment block in the file uses the normal block comment
style and not the networking block comment style.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index ae9f71d..c624b04 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2219,7 +2219,8 @@ sub process {
if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ &&
$prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*[ \t]*$/ &&
- $rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\*/) {
+ $rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\*/ &&
+ $realline > 2) {
WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
"networking block comments don't use an empty /*
line, use /* Comment...\n" . $hereprev);
}
--
1.8.1.2.459.gbcd45b4.dirty
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