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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Fix warnings on code comments
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:30:28 -0800
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On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 17:17 +0000, Allan, Bruce W wrote:
> David Miller Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:07 PM
> > From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> > > So will you be fine with cleanup patches which go through and
> > > convert all the existing code comments to the desired format?
> > Sure.
> Not all Intel drivers...e1000e already conforms to the comment style :-)

In case anyone cares, here's a perl regex
to do network comment style conversion.

	$text =~ s@/\*[ \t]*\n[ \t]*\*@/*@g;
	$text =~ s@/\*([ \t]*)([^\n]+)\n[ \t]*\*/@/\*$1$2 \*/@g;

(assumes the entire file is in $text)

It creates a ~220KB diff for drivers/net/ethernet/intel/
that I won't post.