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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/24] rcu/tree: Use consistent style for comments
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:52:46PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 12:05 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:58:42PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> > > Simple clean up of comments in kfree_rcu() code to keep it consistent
> > > with majority of commenting styles.
> []
> > on /* */ style?
> >
> > I am (slowly) moving RCU to "//" for those reasons. ;-)
>
> I hope c99 comment styles are more commonly used soon too.
> checkpatch doesn't care.
>
> Perhaps a change to coding-style.rst
> ---
> Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index acb2f1b..fee647 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -565,6 +565,11 @@ comments is a little different.
> * but there is no initial almost-blank line.
> */
>
> +.. code-block:: c
> +
> + // Single line and inline comments may also use the c99 // style
> + // Block comments as well
> +
> It's also important to comment data, whether they are basic types or derived
> types. To this end, use just one data declaration per line (no commas for
> multiple data declarations). This leaves you room for a small comment on each
>
>

Yeah that's fine with me. This patch just tries to keep it consistent. I am
Ok with either style.

thanks,

- Joel

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