Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow reporting C99 style comments

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 21:01 -0800, Vadim Bendebury wrote:
> Presently C99 style comments are removed unconditionally before actual
> patch validity check happens. This is a problem for some third party
> projects which use checkpatch.pl but do not allow C99 style comments.
> 
> This patch adds yet another variable, named C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE. If
> it is included in the --ignore command line or config file options
> list, C99 comments in the patch are reported as errors.
> 
> Tested by processing a patch with a C99 style comment, it passes the
> check just fine unless '--ignore C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE' is present in
> .checkpatch.conf.

I'm not a big fan of the name but I can't think of
anything much better.

And the location of the added test isn't good.

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ my $codespellfile = "/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt";
>  my $conststructsfile = "$D/const_structs.checkpatch";
>  my $typedefsfile = "";
>  my $color = "auto";
> -my $allow_c99_comments = 1;

Keep this here.
 
>  sub help {
>  	my ($exitcode) = @_;
> @@ -1250,6 +1249,8 @@ sub sanitise_line {
>  	my $off = 0;
>  	my $c;
>  
> +	my $allow_c99_comments = !defined $ignore_type{"C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE"};
> +

And add this test as a new line near line 1015 like

 my $vname;
+$allow_c99_comments = !defined $ignore_type{"C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE"};
 for my $filename (@ARGV) {