On 11 July 2017 at 21:26, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> wrote: > On 11/07/17 21:18, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >> Multi-line comments also should formatted >> >> /* >> * like >> * this >> */ >> >> not >> >> /* like >> * this */ >> > > Interesting, I never knew there was a preferred format for comments (I > see both styles throughout the codebase).
It's basically GNU coding standard style vs Linux kernel style; there's a mix because some contributors are more used to working on the kernel, and some more used to working with gcc, glibc, etc, and we haven't made a firm "comments must be like this" statement (and of course historical practice in the codebase is all over the place). We also have both of the flavours the kernel style guide documents: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#commenting (I usually use the style the kernel has for net/ personally.) So I don't think that "we" the project have a preferred format; but "we" individual contributors probably have individual preferences ;-) thanks -- PMM
