+ checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments.patch added to -mm tree

+ checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: checkpatch: allow c99 style // comments
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments.patch

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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: checkpatch: allow c99 style // comments

Sanitise the lines that contain c99 comments so that the error doesn't get
emitted.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d4d22c34ad7bcc1bceb52f0742f76b7a6d585235.1468368420.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ my $spelling_file = "$D/spelling.txt";
 my $codespell = 0;
 my $codespellfile = "/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt";
 my $color = 1;
+my $allow_c99_comments = 1;
 
 sub help {
 	my ($exitcode) = @_;
@@ -1145,6 +1146,11 @@ sub sanitise_line {
 		$res =~ s@(\#\s*(?:error|warning)\s+).*@$1$clean@;
 	}
 
+	if ($allow_c99_comments && $res =~ m@(//.*$)@) {
+		my $match = $1;
+		$res =~ s/\Q$match\E/"$;" x length($match)/e;
+	}
+
 	return $res;
 }
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@perches.com are

printk-create-pr_level-functions.patch
checkpatch-skip-long-lines-that-use-an-efi_guid-macro.patch
checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments.patch