linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drivers/staging/rtl8192u: drop first comment line

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Message-ID: <20190627164530.GD9692@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:45:30 +0800
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Christian Müller <muellerch-privat@....de>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Felix Trommer <felix.trommer@...mail.de>,
        linux-kernel@...cs.fau.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        johnfwhitmore@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drivers/staging/rtl8192u: drop first comment line

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:33:35AM +0200, Christian Müller wrote:
> As stated in coding-styles.rst multiline comments should be structured in a way,
> that the actual comment starts on the second line of the commented portion. E.g:
> 
> /*
>  * Multiline comments
>  * should look like
>  * this.
>  */
> 
> However, there is an exception to files in drivers/net/ and net/, where
> multiline comments are prefered to look like this:
> 
> /* Mutliline comments for
>  * drivers/net/ should look
>  * like this.
>  */
> 
> The comments in this file initially looked like the first example.
> But since this file is part of a networking driver and thus should
> be moved to drivers/net/ one day, this patch adjusts the comments
> such that they are fitting to the style imposed for drivers/net/.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Müller <muellerch-privat@....de>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Trommer <felix.trommer@...mail.de>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c | 69 ++++++++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

What changed from v1?  That always goes below the --- line.

Please fix up and send v3.

thanks,

greg k-h