[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch.pl: make C99 comments a warning, not error

[Michael Roth]

On 04/01/2011 10:20 AM, Michael Roth wrote:
> C99 comments are pretty heavilly used in QEMU, and don't violate
> anything mentioned in HACKING/CODING_STYLE. Make them warnings instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth<address@hidden>
> ---
>   scripts/checkpatch.pl |    2 +-
>   test.c                |    5 +++++
>   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 test.c
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 770d534..2aab4e9 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1799,7 +1799,7 @@ sub process {
>
>   # no C99 // comments
>                 if ($line =~ m{//}) {
> -                       ERROR("do not use C99 // comments\n" . $herecurr);
> +                       WARN("do not use C99 // comments\n" . $herecurr);
>                 }
>                 # Remove C99 comments.
>                 $line =~ s@//.*@@;
> diff --git a/test.c b/test.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..fe3b163
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/test.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> +//stuff
> +static int blah(void)
> +{
> +    return 1;
> +}

Ugh, please ignore this test.c addition. Let me know if I should resend