From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments"
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:55:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1470333314.3998.245.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a191e42dbdfaff2835f5f815fd5413815bba0fd.1468369072.git.joe@perches.com>
On Tue, 2016-07-12 at 17:18 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Because Linus may still be reading source code on greenbar paper
> instead of color terminals with code syntax highlighting and
> appropriate font decorations.
>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFyQYJerovMsSoSKS7PessZBr4vNp-3QUUwhqk4A4_jcbg@mail.gmail.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---
> Documentation/CodingStyle | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
> index 9a70ddd..19b2e9c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
> +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
> @@ -461,9 +461,6 @@ When commenting the kernel API functions, please use the kernel-doc format.
> See the files Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt and scripts/kernel-doc
> for details.
>
> -Linux style for comments is the C89 "/* ... */" style.
> -Don't use C99-style "// ..." comments.
> -
> The preferred style for long (multi-line) comments is:
>
> /*
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-04 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-13 0:18 [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments" Joe Perches
2016-08-04 17:55 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-08-14 18:35 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-08-14 18:43 ` Joe Perches
2016-08-14 19:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2016-08-14 19:19 ` Joe Perches
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