Sanitise the lines that contain c99 comments so that the error doesn't get emitted.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index cc787e6..a0e5112 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ my $spelling_file = "$D/spelling.txt"; my $codespell = 0; my $codespellfile = "/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt"; my $color = 1; +my $allow_c99_comments = 1; sub help { my ($exitcode) = @_; @@ -1145,6 +1146,11 @@ sub sanitise_line { $res =~ s@(\#\s*(?:error|warning)\s+).*@$1$clean@; } + if ($allow_c99_comments && $res =~ m@(//.*$)@) { + my $match = $1; + $res =~ s/\Q$match\E/"$;" x length($match)/e; + } + return $res; } -- 2.8.0.rc4.16.g56331f8
