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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:09:12 -0700

> It looks unbalanced. If you want to save that vertical space, just use
> C++ style comments instead, for chissake! Then you save *two* lines,
> without the unbalanced thing, and just write it as
> 
>     // XXX
>     // YYY
> 
> which is much preferred.

I'm perfectly fine with this too.