Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:33:08 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/staging/rtl8129u: adjust block comments |
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:45:34AM +0200, Christian Müller wrote: > As stated in coding-styles.rst multiline comments should be structured in a way, > that the actual comment starts on the second line of the commented portion. E.g: > > /* > * Multiline comments > * should look like > * this. > */ > > The comments in this file were of a format, that looked like this: > > /* Multiline comments previous > * to this patch > * looked like this. > */ > > There is an exception to files in /net and drivers/net, > where multiline comments are preferred to look like the second example above, > but since this file resides in a different directory, > this patch changes the style to match the preferred style.
Ah. Hm. Turns out this is a networking driver, and some day, the goal would be for it to live under drivers/net/ If it were to move there, then these comments would be in the correct format already.
So this patch isn't needed, sorry.
greg k-h
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