Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 May 2017 09:28:18 +1000 | From | "Tobin C. Harding" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Staging: bcm2835-audio: bcm2835-ctl.c: Fixed a comment coding style issue. |
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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 08:03:14PM +0530, srishti sharma wrote:
This driver is not in Greg KH's staging tree. You may like to work off of that tree when doing staging patches.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/
To aid you future patches here are a couple of minor comments for you.
> fixed a trailing */ issue
You may like to be more explicit here using the format described in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst (Section 2 Describe your changes). This goes for your subject line as well.
> Signed-off-by: srishti sharma <srishtishar@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c b/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c > index a4ffa1b..38fabab 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c > @@ -247,8 +247,8 @@ static int snd_bcm2835_spdif_mask_get(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, > struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol) > { > /* bcm2835 supports only consumer mode and sets all other format flags > - * automatically. So the only thing left is signalling non-audio > - * content */ > + * automatically. So the only thing left is signalling non-audio content > + */
And for completeness this is the block comment style in networking code, the rest of the kernel uses the format
/* * block comment blah blah * on multiple lines */
Good luck, Tobin.
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