Re: Spurious warning in checkpatch.pl?

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 13:23 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> The checkpatch.pl version in mainline is issuing what I think are false warnings 
> of the type
> 
> WARNING: networking block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line
> #93: FILE: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h:208:
> +       u32 rf_rb;              /* rflssi_readback */
> 
> Is a trailing comment for the member of a struct not allowed?

It's allowed.  Maybe even better, encouraged.

It's a change I made in commit 058806007450
("checkpatch: check networking specific block comment style")
without sufficient testing.

I'll see about fixing it.


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