netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 6/8] 6lowpan: fix some checkpatch issues

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Message-Id: <20140226.135935.818983415159760824.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:59:35 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	alex.aring@...il.com, alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com,
	dbaryshkov@...il.com, linux-zigbee-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, martin.townsend@...lon.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 6/8] 6lowpan: fix some checkpatch issues

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:24:56 -0800

> On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 17:05 +0100, Alexander Aring wrote:
>> Detected with:
>> 
>> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -f net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c
> 
> Hello Alexander.
> 
> Can I suggest to you (and to David) that the
> multiline comment style:
> 
> /*
>  * comment
>  */
> 
> is fine and doesn't need correcting here at the
> initial bits of a file before any actual code has
> been written?
> 
> Assuming David agrees, I'll see about updating
> checkpatch to avoid this warning at the beginning
> of files.

I'm largely ambivalent but prefer avoiding that wasted "/*" line.
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