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Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments"
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:19:19 -0700
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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.