linux-kernel - Re: Please fix or revert: [PATCH] checkpatch: add --strict tests for braces, comments and casts

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Message-Id: <20120416.151320.54915405482634916.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:13:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, joe@...ches.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, apw@...onical.com
Subject: Re: Please fix or revert: [PATCH] checkpatch: add --strict tests
 for braces, comments and casts

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:09:12 -0700

> It looks unbalanced. If you want to save that vertical space, just use
> C++ style comments instead, for chissake! Then you save *two* lines,
> without the unbalanced thing, and just write it as
> 
>     // XXX
>     // YYY
> 
> which is much preferred.

I'm perfectly fine with this too.
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