Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Andreas Oberritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Then, because we surely want to submit all changes to the official > > kernel tree, it would be good to follow the kernel coding style, i.e. > > replace c++ comments by c comments etc. Please have a look at > > linux/Documentation/CodingStyle. > > "//" is part of c and used in great quantity in the kernel (try a grep > in the dvb subdir); it is preferred for short comments because you > can then comment a big block with "/*"..."*/ without nesting comments.
We were pretty sloppy when accepting patches in the past, however DVB code is under public scrutiny on lkml, and C++ comments are not accepted for kernel code. If you need to comment out large blocks you can use #if 0. Johannes
