Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: kpc2000: remove unnecessary comments in kp2000_pcie_probe

From: Simon SandstrÃm
Date: Wed Jun 12 2019 - 06:12:30 EST


On 12/06, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:39:36AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:05:35PM +0200, Simon SandstrÃm wrote:
> > > @@ -349,9 +340,7 @@ static int kp2000_pcie_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> > > goto err_remove_ida;
> > > }
> > >
> > > - /*
> > > - * Step 4: Setup the Register BAR
> > > - */
> > > + // Setup the Register BAR
> >
> > Greg, are we moving the C++ style comments? Linus is fine with them. I
> > don't like them but whatever...
>
> I don't like them either. I'm only "ok" with them on the very first
> line of the file. Linus chose // to make it "stand out" from the normal
> flow of the file, which is fine for an SPDX line. So putting these in
> here like this is not ok to me.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

I changed them to C++ style so that they would match the other comments
in the file, which are C++ style, but I guess that it should have been
done the other way around with the C++ style changed to C style.

Good to know. I'll change them back and send a v2.

- Simon