linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: xlnx: change license header format style

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Message-ID: <20181219162434.GE8130@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:24:34 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Maruthi Srinivas Bayyavarapu 
        <maruthi.srinivas.bayyavarapu@...inx.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Vishal Sagar <vsagar@...inx.com>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: xlnx: change license header format style

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 07:17:04AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 03:10:40PM +0530, Maruthi Srinivas Bayyavarapu wrote:
> > Changed License header from C to C++ style comment block.

> Why this completely pointless uglification that goes counter to
> the common style all over the kernel?

I asked for it, when you end up with a C++ comment immediately adjacent
to a C comment block it doesn't exactly look clean and intentional
either.

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