On Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:35:29 -0700 Joe Perches joe@perches.com wrote:
C99 comments are allowed since about 5 years ago.
Really, I thought Linus hated them. Personally, I find them rather ugly myself. The only user of them I see in the kernel/ directory appears to be for RCU. But Paul's on the C/C++ committee, so perhaps he favors them.
The net/ directory doesn't have any, except perhaps to comment out code (which I sometimes use it for that too).
The block/, arch/x86/ directories don't have them either.
I wouldn't go and change checkpatch, but I still rather avoid them, especially for multi line comments.
/* * When it comes to multi line comments I prefer using something * that denotes a start and an end to the comment, as it makes it * look like a nice clip of information. */
Instead of:
// When it comes to multi line comments I prefer using something // that denotes a start and an end to the comment, as it makes it // look like a nice clip of information.
Which just looks like noise. But hey, maybe that's just me because I find "*" as a sign of information and '//' something to ignore. ;-)
-- Steve