[PATCH v3] checkpatch: check block comments outside of net

From: Matthijs Kooijman
Date: Wed Apr 10 2013 - 05:00:18 EST


There was some code checking block comments in net/ and drivers/net/,
but nothing for regular comments.

The end of a block comment is the same as inside net, so that check can
just be generalized.

The start of block comment must not have any comment after the leading
/*, which requires a new check.

Tested with:

$ cat test.c
/* foo */

/*
* foo
*/

/* foo
*/

/* foo
* bar */

/**
* foo
* bar
*/

/****************************
* some long block comment
****************************/

struct foo {
int bar; /* another test */
};

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -f test.c
CHECK: block comments put the leading /* on a separate line
+
+/* foo

CHECK: block comments put the leading /* on a separate line
+
+/* foo

CHECK: block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line
+ * bar */

total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 3 checks, 25 lines checked

test.c has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@xxxxxxxx>

---

v2: change the error message for consistency
add a comment
v3: allow /*{2,} as well
convert to CHK

I've also allowed /******************** since that seems to be used in
a lot of places as well.
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b28cc38..64021da 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1884,13 +1884,21 @@ sub process {
"networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...\n" . $hereprev);
}

- if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ &&
- $rawline !~ m@^\+[ \t]*\*/[ \t]*$@ && #trailing */
+ if ($realfile !~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ &&
+ $rawline !~ m@^\+.*/\*.*\*/[ \t]*$@ && #inline /*...*/
+ $rawline !~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*\*?[ \t]*$/ && #blank /* or /**
+ $rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*.+$/ && #non blank /*
+ $prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*$/) {
+ CHK("BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
+ "block comments put the leading /* on a separate line\n" . $hereprev);
+ }
+
+ if ($rawline !~ m@^\+[ \t]*\*/[ \t]*$@ && #trailing */
$rawline !~ m@^\+.*/\*.*\*/[ \t]*$@ && #inline /*...*/
$rawline !~ m@^\+.*\*{2,}/[ \t]*$@ && #trailing **/
$rawline =~ m@^\+[ \t]*.+\*\/[ \t]*$@) { #non blank */
- WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
- "networking block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line\n" . $herecurr);
+ CHK("BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
+ "block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line\n" . $herecurr);
}

# check for spaces at the beginning of a line.
--
1.8.0

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