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checkpatch: widen implied comment detection to allow multiple stars

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Some people use double star '**' as a comment continuation, and start
comments with complete lines of stars.  Widen the implied comment
detection to pick these up.

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>
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Andy Whitcroft 2009-01-06 14:41:17 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 721c1cb60e
commit 83242e0c23
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@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ sub process {
# is the start of a diff block and this line starts
# ' *' then it is very likely a comment.
if (!defined $edge &&
$rawlines[$linenr] =~ m@^.\s* \*(?:\s|$)@)
$rawlines[$linenr] =~ m@^.\s*(?:\*\*+| \*)(?:\s|$)@)
{
$in_comment = 1;
}