[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] checkpatch: checker for comment block

[Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>]

Eduardo Habkost pointed out a malformed block of comments on my
patch [1] that I had ran checkpatch.pl and no warn/error was
reported. Then I realized the script does not catch such as
case (or it had a bug).

It turns out that checkpatch.pl does not parse comment blocks (If I understood
its code correctly...). So I implemented a checker that warns about:
1. block doesn't begin on its own line.
Example:
  /* blah blah
   * and blah blah
   */

2. line in the block doesn't start with asterisk.
Example:
  /*
    foo bar
    bar foo
   */
Note: only the first occurence (i.e 'foo bar') is reported.

3. block doesn't end on its own line.
Example:
  /*
   * blah blah
   * and blah */

References:
[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg580091.html

ps: last time I wrote Perl code was about 13 years ago. That remember me
of good times. :)

Wainer dos Santos Moschetta (1):
  checkpatch: check for malformed comment block.

 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

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