Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: always allow C99 SPDX License Identifer comments

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 12:11 -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
> Always allow C99 comment styles if SPDK-License-Identifier is in comment
> even if C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE is specified in the --ignore options.

Why is this useful?

> Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index a63380c6b0d2..c8b429dd6b51 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3852,8 +3852,8 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> -# no C99 // comments
> -		if ($line =~ m{//}) {
> +# no C99 // comments except for SPDX-License-Identifier
> +		if ($line =~ m{//} && $rawline !~ /SPDX-License-Identifier:/) {
>  			if (ERROR("C99_COMMENTS",
>  				  "do not use C99 // comments\n" . $herecurr) &&
>  			    $fix) {