Re: Spurious warning in checkpatch.pl?

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 14:49 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> One more question. Was the warning below intended?
> 
> WARNING: networking block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line
> #1846: FILE: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hal_btc.h:27:
> + *****************************************************************************/
> 
> To me, that line at the end of a copyright block looks better then
> 
> 
>   ****************************************************************************
>   */

No, not really.  It's a side effect of the nominal block comment
style that networking uses.

Maybe it could be improved by ignoring lines that end in "**/"
(\*\*\/\s*$) too.

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