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From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Sumant Patro <sumantp@lsil.com>,
	James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	neela.kolli@lsi.com, bo.yang@lsi.com, sumant.patro@lsi.com
Subject: Re: [Patch] scsi: megaraid_{mm,mbox}: init fix for kdump
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:31:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4596784A.1060001@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061229133741.441a5933.rdunlap@xenotime.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

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-30 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-29 16:02 [Patch] scsi: megaraid_{mm,mbox}: init fix for kdump Sumant Patro
2006-12-29 21:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-30 14:31   ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2006-12-30 15:38     ` Randy Dunlap
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-03  2:37 Patro, Sumant
2007-01-05 15:10 [PATCH] scsi: megaraid_{mm,mbox} " Sumant Patro
2007-01-05 21:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-31 17:49 ` Matthias Urlichs
2007-01-05 23:47 Patro, Sumant
2007-01-05 23:50 ` Randy Dunlap

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