Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into staging/for_v3.8

* linus/master: (1428 commits)
  futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q
  watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()
  writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion
  mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled
  Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"
  proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing
  UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation
  include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID
  Linux 3.7-rc7
  powerpc/eeh: Do not invalidate PE properly
  ALSA: hda - Fix build without CONFIG_PM
  of/address: sparc: Declare of_iomap as an extern function for sparc again
  PM / QoS: fix wrong error-checking condition
  bnx2x: remove redundant warning log
  vxlan: fix command usage in its doc
  8139cp: revert "set ring address before enabling receiver"
  MPI: Fix compilation on MIPS with GCC 4.4 and newer
  MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing is enabled
  MIPS: Merge overlapping bootmem ranges
  jbd: Fix lock ordering bug in journal_unmap_buffer()
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 21a9f5de0a21..f18750e3bd6c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1890,8 +1890,10 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 		if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ &&
-		    $rawline !~ m@^\+[ \t]*(\/\*|\*\/)@ &&
-		    $rawline =~ m@^\+[ \t]*.+\*\/[ \t]*$@) {
+		    $rawline !~ m@^\+[ \t]*\*/[ \t]*$@ &&	#trailing */
+		    $rawline !~ m@^\+.*/\*.*\*/[ \t]*$@ &&	#inline /*...*/
+		    $rawline !~ m@^\+.*\*{2,}/[ \t]*$@ &&	#trailing **/
+		    $rawline =~ m@^\+[ \t]*.+\*\/[ \t]*$@) {	#non blank */
 			WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
 			     "networking block comments put the trailing */ on a separate line\n" . $herecurr);
 		}