[PATCH] checkpatch: Fix false positive on empty block comment lines

From: Łukasz Stelmach
Date: Fri Oct 02 2020 - 15:15:53 EST


To avoid false positives in presence of SPDX-License-Identifier in
networking files it is required to increase the leeway for empty block
comment lines by one line.

Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a213cdb82ab0..60e10da4cccb 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3460,7 +3460,7 @@ sub process {
if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ &&
$prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*[ \t]*$/ &&
$rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\*/ &&
- $realline > 2) {
+ $realline > 3) {
WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
"networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...\n" . $hereprev);
}
--
2.26.2