kernel-doc: detect trailing kernel-doc line trash
Print a warning when a kernel-doc comment block ends with text on the same
line as the ending comment characters, e.g.:
* this text is lost. */
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index 99364a5..83cee18 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1950,6 +1950,11 @@
$section = $section_default;
$contents = "";
}
+ # look for doc_com + <text> + doc_end:
+ if ($_ =~ m'\s*\*\s*[a-zA-Z_0-9:\.]+\*/') {
+ print STDERR "Warning(${file}:$.): suspicious ending line: $_";
+ ++$warnings;
+ }
$prototype = "";
$state = 3;