linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Clean-up a few comments.

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:11:18 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean-up a few comments.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c |    9 ++++-----
>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> index f7b8b98..1bd37e9 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ struct edd edd;
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_EDD_MODULE
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(edd);
>>  #endif
>> -/**
>> +/*
>
> There are zillions of '**' comment starters in kernel sources.
>
>        $ git grep '/\*\*$' drivers/ | wc -l
>        15506
>
> So it doesn't seem to make sense to fix only this particular one.

Some of them are needed by kerneldoc generation, it doesn't make sense
to fix them.
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