Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > OK, I simply tried to use the style of the rest of the file. > I'll avoid "//" comments and clean the whole mt312.c, if it's so. > > But there is a lot of cleaning work to be done, not only in dvb, > but in *every part* of the kernel. > I found more than 2000 files with "//", for a total of more than > 26000 lines. :-) > > Are you sure about this "//" rule? No mention in CodingStyle and > too much infringing code already accepted.
I can't find any authoritative posting, but this comes up regularly on lkml. If you search the bitkeeper changesets for "comments" you will find numerous entries referring to changing comments style. Johannes
