checkpatch: fix false positive on empty block comment lines

To avoid false positives in presence of SPDX-License-Identifier in networking files it is required to increase the leeway for empty block comment lines by one line. For example, checking drivers/net/loopback.c which starts with // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later /* * INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX rsults in an unnecessary warning WARNING: networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment... +/* + * INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX

Łukasz Stelmach committed 6 years ago

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@@ -3464,7 +3464,7 @@ sub process { · 3463 unmodified lines
3464	3464	if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/\|net/)@ &&
3465	3465	$prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]\/\[ \t]*$/ &&
3466	3466	$rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]\/ &&
3467		− $realline > 2) {
	3467	+ $realline > 3) { # Do not warn about the initial copyright comment block after SPDX-License-Identifier
3468	3468	WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
3469	3469	"networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...\n" . $hereprev);
3470	3470	}