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Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2016 10:59:05 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Megha Dey <megha.dey@...el.com>,
	"Wang, Rui Y" <rui.y.wang@...el.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Xiaodong Liu <xiaodong.liu@...el.com>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [patch] crypto: sha256-mb - cleanup a || vs | typo

On Fri 2016-07-08 10:19:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [ rare comment rant. I think I'll do this once, and then ignore the discussion ]
> 
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > Nack.  As I said the commenting style in the crypto API is the
> > same as the network stack.  So unless we decide to change both
> > please stick to the current style.
> 
> Can we please get rid of the brain-damaged stupid networking comment
> syntax style, PLEASE?

Please? :-). Having different comment styles between networking and
the rest is confusing.

And yes, this uglyness is documented for net/ and drivers/net/, but
not for crypto/, so at the very least Documentation/CodingStyle should
be updated.

									Pavel
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