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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, 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: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:19:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1471202359.4075.55.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa9279c5-8139-e548-bb9c-a4fa35c47e64@infradead.org>

On Sun, 2016-08-14 at 12:09 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> I like it, but like Linus said, we don't want people to send
> patches just to "fix" the comment style.

Just fyi, checkpatch makes no recommendation about
converting single line comments to //.

And it shouldn't in my opinion.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-14 19:19 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
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 [this message]

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