Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: align comments

Joe Perches
2021-03-11T09:16:30Z

On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 20:48 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> You need to have a space character after the '*'.

Perhaps YA checkpatch test...
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f42e5ba16d9b..0de553d52605 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3876,6 +3876,21 @@ sub process {
}
}

+# Independent comment lines should have a space after the comment initiator
+ if ($line =~ /^\+[ \t]*($;+)/) { #leading comment
+ my $comment = trim(substr($rawline, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1]));
+ if ($comment =~ m{^(/\*|\*/|\*|//)(.*)}) {
+ my $init = $1;
+ my $rest = $2;
+ if ($init =~ m{^(?:/\*|\*|//)$} &&
+ $rest ne '' &&
+ $rest !~ /^[\s\*=\-]/) {
+ WARN("COMMENT_STYLE",
+ "Comments generally use whitespace after the comment initiator\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
# check for missing blank lines after struct/union declarations
# with exceptions for various attributes and macros
if ($prevline =~ /^[\+ ]};?\s*$/ &&