Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check block comments outside of net

2013-04-09 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
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? >

Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check block comments outside of net

2013-04-09 Thread Joe Perches
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 i

[PATCH] checkpatch: Check block comments outside of net

2013-04-09 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
There was some code checking block comments in net/ and drivers/net/, but nothing to check the regular block comment style. The end of a block comment is the same as inside net, so that check can just be generalized. The start of block comment must not have any comment after the leading /*, which