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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Christian Müller" <muellerch-privat@web.de>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, felix.trommer@hotmail.de,
	linux-kernel@i4.cs.fau.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	johnfwhitmore@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/staging/rtl8192u: Reformat comments
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 15:04:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190603130437.GA30732@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190603122104.2564-2-muellerch-privat@web.de>

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 02:21:02PM +0200, Christian Müller wrote:
> From: Felix Trommer <felix.trommer@hotmail.de>
> 
> Replace C99-Style comments with C89-Style comments.

What does that mean?

>  		if (MaxChnlNum >= pTriple->first_channel) {
> -			/* It is not in a monotonically increasing order, so
> +			/*
> +			 * It is not in a monotonically increasing order, so
>  			 * stop processing.
>  			 */

Those are both /* */ style comments.  Where in the C99 or C89 spec does
it say anything about this type of change?

Are you sure you are not getting confused about // for a comment marker
in C99 which is not in C89?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-03 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-03 12:21 [PATCH 0/3] Fixing style errors in staging/drivers/rtl8192u Christian Müller
2019-06-03 12:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] drivers/staging/rtl8192u: Reformat comments Christian Müller
2019-06-03 13:04   ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-06-03 12:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] drivers/staging/rtl8192u: Remove comment-out code Christian Müller
2019-06-03 13:06   ` Greg KH
2019-06-03 12:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] drivers/staging/rtl8192u: Fix of checkpatch-errors Christian Müller
2019-06-03 13:05   ` Greg KH
2019-06-03 13:09   ` Joe Perches

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