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Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL

From Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL
Date 2016-04-12 19:50 +0200
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> On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 13:59 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -3000,7 +3000,7 @@ sub process {
> 
>  			$realline_next = $line_nr_next;
>  			if (defined $realline_next &&
>  			    (!defined $lines[$realline_next - 1] ||
> -			     substr($lines[$realline_next - 1], $off_next) =~ /^\s*$/)) {
> +			     substr($lines[$realline_next - 1], $off_next) =~ /^($;|\s)*$/)) {
>  				$realline_next++;
>   			}

This doesn't work with c99 comments like:

int foo;		// comment
EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);	// comment

but then again, there aren't any uses like that in the
kernel tree so it almost certainly doesn't matter.

Thanks Andy.

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Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com> - 2016-04-12 00:00 +0200
  Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-04-12 00:20 +0200
    Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> - 2016-04-12 15:00 +0200
      Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com> - 2016-04-12 15:40 +0200
      Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-04-12 19:50 +0200
        Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com> - 2016-04-12 20:10 +0200
        Re: checkpatch false positon on EXPORT_SYMBOL Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> - 2016-04-13 09:00 +0200

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