[PATCH RESEND] scripts: headers_install: fix a false positive

From: Wen Yang
Date: Sun Jun 29 2025 - 11:52:43 EST


The current implementation only handles C89 style comments (/*... */) in
the code, and there are false positives for C99 style comments (//...).

This patch fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/headers_install.sh | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/headers_install.sh b/scripts/headers_install.sh
index 6bbccb43f7e7..41722bcc8668 100755
--- a/scripts/headers_install.sh
+++ b/scripts/headers_install.sh
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__ -D__EXPORTED_HEADERS__ $TMPFILE > $OUTFILE
# Remove /* ... */ style comments, and find CONFIG_ references in code
configs=$(sed -e '
:comment
+ s://.*::
s:/\*[^*][^*]*:/*:
s:/\*\*\**\([^/]\):/*\1:
t comment
--
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