Hi Joe, On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:32:54AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > 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 I just realized that as well, I'll send an updated patch.
> > 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. I'm not entirely sure if this is a answer to my question? Or are you saying you don't really care about this and thus don't know the answer? :-) > Please make it a --strict (CHK) only test for now. Ok. Gr. Matthijs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
