Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Fix warnings on code comments

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 09:30 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 17:17 +0000, Allan, Bruce W wrote:
> > David Miller Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:07 PM
> > > From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > So will you be fine with cleanup patches which go through and
> > > > convert all the existing code comments to the desired format?
> > > Sure.
> > Not all Intel drivers...e1000e already conforms to the comment style :-)
> 
> In case anyone cares, here's a perl regex
> to do network comment style conversion.
> 
>         $text =~ s@/\*[ \t]*\n[ \t]*\*@/*@g;
>         $text =~ s@/\*([ \t]*)([^\n]+)\n[ \t]*\*/@/\*$1$2 \*/@g;
> 
> (assumes the entire file is in $text)
> 
> It creates a ~220KB diff for drivers/net/ethernet/intel/
> that I won't post.
> 

Thanks Joe, I will get patches to take care of the Intel drivers (minus
e1000e since Bruce has already completed that work).

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