checkpatch: comment detection: ignore macro continuation when detecting associated comments
When looking for an associated comment they may be suffixed by a macro
continuation. Ignore this.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index fd597a4..94250d1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@
my ($first_line, $end_line) = @_;
# Catch a comment on the end of the line itself.
- my ($current_comment) = ($rawlines[$end_line - 1] =~ m@.*(/\*.*\*/)\s*$@);
+ my ($current_comment) = ($rawlines[$end_line - 1] =~ m@.*(/\*.*\*/)\s*(?:\\\s*)?$@);
return $current_comment if (defined $current_comment);
# Look through the context and try and figure out if there is a