On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 13:19 +0200, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > There was some code checking block comments in net/ and drivers/net/, > but nothing to check the regular block comment style. [] > Note that this patch rejects /** comments, since those are not mentioned > in Codingstyle. They are used in practice though (around 1000 occurences > in kernel/ alone), so perhaps they should be allowed and documented?
Those are kernel-doc comments and must be allowed. see Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt > Also, the new check only fires when the previous line is empty, just > like the start of block comment check for net/. However, I couldn't find > any documentation on why this restriction is needed? I'm not that concerned about block comment style. Maybe others are. Please make it a --strict (CHK) only test for now. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
