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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Azael Avalos <coproscefalo@gmail.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] toshiba_acpi: Cleanup blank lines after comment blocks
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 07:18:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430835520.7191.14.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430759758-4026-4-git-send-email-coproscefalo@gmail.com>

On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 11:15 -0600, Azael Avalos wrote:
> This patch removes some blank lines after comment blocks, capitalizes
> some comments first words and adds a few comments to the beggining
> of some functions.

I think blank lines after comments are generally OK.

This is now inconsistent about 

/*
 * short comment
 */

and

/* short comment */

Not all function blocks need introductory comments.

> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c
[]
> @@ -78,10 +78,9 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>   * SCI stands for "System Configuration Interface" which aim is to
>   * conceal differences in hardware between different models.
>   */
> -
>  #define TCI_WORDS			6

It's sometimes nice to have blank lines after long
block comments.
 
> -/* operations */
> +/* Operations */

I think these sentence case changes aren't better.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-05 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-04 17:15 [PATCH v2 0/5] toshiba_acpi: Driver cleanup Azael Avalos
2015-05-04 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] toshiba_acpi: Remove no longer needed hci_{read, write}2 functions Azael Avalos
2015-05-04 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] toshiba_acpi: Rename hci_{read, write}1 functions Azael Avalos
2015-05-04 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] toshiba_acpi: Cleanup blank lines after comment blocks Azael Avalos
2015-05-05 14:18   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-05-05 15:25     ` Azael Avalos
2015-05-05 21:24   ` Darren Hart
2015-05-04 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] toshiba_acpi: Remove TOS_FAILURE check from some functions Azael Avalos
2015-05-04 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] toshiba_acpi: Bump driver version to 0.22 Azael Avalos
2015-05-06  6:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] toshiba_acpi: Driver cleanup Darren Hart
2015-05-06 15:08   ` Azael Avalos
2015-05-06 22:45     ` Darren Hart
2015-05-06 23:06       ` Azael Avalos

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