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

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Date:	Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:19:19 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Remove "Don't use C99-style comments"

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.