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Message-ID: <20221007085431.GA3365@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2022 10:54:31 +0200
From:   Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        pabeni@...hat.com, robh@...nel.org, johannes@...solutions.net,
        ecree.xilinx@...il.com, stephen@...workplumber.org, sdf@...gle.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, fw@...len.de, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        razor@...ckwall.org, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/7] net: add basic C code generators for
 Netlink

On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 07:55:37AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 14:51:09 +0200 Guillaume Nault wrote:
> > > v2: - use /* */ comments instead of //  
> > 
> > Probably not a very interesting feedback, but there
> > are still many comments generated in the // style.
> 
> It's slightly unclear to me what our policy on comments is now.
> I can fix all up - the motivation for the change in v2 was that
> in uAPI apparently its completely forbidden to use anything that's 
> not ANSI C :S

I didn't realise the v2 comment was for uapi headers only. So I was
surprised to see // comments in the generated files.

> Gotta keep that compatibility with the all important Borland compiler
> or something?

Personnaly, I like the /* */ style, but I don't think my personnal
taste should influence this patch set. I genuinely thought you wanted
to convert all comments, hence my feedback. Feel free to ignore it :).

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