Sometimes SPDX expressions appear inside C comments, and this
confuses checkpatch.pl. Drop the closing C comment characters
to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 833f20f555..91616c974f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1368,6 +1368,9 @@ sub checkspdx {
$expr =~ s/^\s*//g;
$expr =~ s/\s*$//g;
+ # Cull C comment end
+ $expr =~ s/\*\/.*//;
+
my @bits = split / +/, $expr;
my $prefer = "GPL-2.0-or-later";
--
2.50.1