Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: Fix block comments use * on subsequent lines in r8192U_wx.c

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Feb 01 2016 - 02:35:13 EST




On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, ByeoungWook Kim wrote:

> The current realtek driver was written like my patch comments. but
> Documentation/CodingStyle isn't before.
> So I wrote patch like current realtek driver.

That is probably fine, then. Sorry for the noise. I looked at some other
code in the kernel, and it didn't have it.

julia

>
> How should i do it?
>
> Regards,
> Byeoungwook.
>
> 2016-02-01 16:01 GMT+09:00 Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Byeoungwook Kim wrote:
> >
> >> clean up checkpatch warning:
> >> WARNING: Block comments use * on subsequent lines
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Byeoungwook Kim <quddnr145@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.c
> >> index 4911fef..f828e64 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.c
> >> @@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
> >> -/*
> >> - This file contains wireless extension handlers.
> >> -
> >> - This is part of rtl8180 OpenSource driver.
> >> - Copyright (C) Andrea Merello 2004-2005 <andrea.merello@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> - Released under the terms of GPL (General Public Licence)
> >> -
> >> - Parts of this driver are based on the GPL part
> >> - of the official realtek driver.
> >> -
> >> - Parts of this driver are based on the rtl8180 driver skeleton
> >> - from Patric Schenke & Andres Salomon.
> >> -
> >> - Parts of this driver are based on the Intel Pro Wireless 2100 GPL driver.
> >> -
> >> - We want to thank the Authors of those projects and the Ndiswrapper
> >> - project Authors.
> >> -*/
> >> +/******************************************************************************
> >
> > Is the row of *s needed?
> >
> > julia
> >
> >> + *
> >> + * This file contains wireless extension handlers.
> >> + *
> >> + * This is part of rtl8180 OpenSource driver.
> >> + * Copyright (C) Andrea Merello 2004-2005 <andrea.merello@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> + * Released under the terms of GPL (General Public Licence)
> >> + *
> >> + * Parts of this driver are based on the GPL part
> >> + * of the official realtek driver.
> >> + *
> >> + * Parts of this driver are based on the rtl8180 driver skeleton
> >> + * from Patric Schenke & Andres Salomon.
> >> + *
> >> + * Parts of this driver are based on the Intel Pro Wireless 2100 GPL driver.
> >> + *
> >> + * We want to thank the Authors of those projects and the Ndiswrapper
> >> + * project Authors.
> >> + *
> >> + *****************************************************************************/
> >>
> >> #include <linux/string.h>
> >> #include "r8192U.h"
> >> --
> >> 2.5.0
> >>
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