Re: [Patch] scsi: megaraid_{mm,mbox}: init fix for kdump

[Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>]

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:02:17 -0800 Sumant Patro wrote:
> 
> See Documentation/SubmittingPatches:
> Please include output of "diffstat -p1 -w70" so that we can easily see
> the scope of the changes.
> 
> and see Documentation/CodingStyle for comments below:
> 
> 
>> diff -uprN linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c linux-2.6.new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c 2006-12-28 09:56:04.000000000 -0800
>> +++ linux-2.6.new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c 2006-12-29 05:31:48.000000000 -0800
>> @@ -779,6 +780,22 @@ megaraid_init_mbox(adapter_t *adapter)
>>  		goto out_release_regions;
>>  	}
>>  
>> +	// initialize the mutual exclusion lock for the mailbox
>> +	spin_lock_init(&raid_dev->mailbox_lock);
> 
> Linux uses /*...*/ C89-style comments, not // C99 comments.

Randy
It is about time this absurd stipulation was dropped.
Are there any C compilers that can compile the linux
kernel and that don't accept both _standard_ comment styles?

Doug Gilbert