Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL

[Joe Perches]

> 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.