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Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments"

From Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments"
Date 2016-08-14 21:20 +0200
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On Sun, 2016-08-14 at 12:09 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> I like it, but like Linus said, we don't want people to send
> patches just to "fix" the comment style.

Just fyi, checkpatch makes no recommendation about
converting single line comments to //.

And it shouldn't in my opinion.

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Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments" Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-08-14 20:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments" Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-14 20:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments" Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-08-14 21:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments" Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-08-14 21:20 +0200

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