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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Cc: Akshay Joshi <me@akshayjoshi.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Karthigan Srinivasan <karthigan.srinivasan2@gmail.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] Staging: Winbond: Convert C99 style comments in Winbond.
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:41:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4B54A4.4040203@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+XFjiq01Ea4hivhMK=H3pgFeaoCgUWDUirD=-PzALzvOpdvvA@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/17/11 12:38 AM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> 2011/8/16 Pekka Enberg<penberg@kernel.org>:
>> 2011/8/16 Gábor Stefanik<netrolller.3d@gmail.com>:
>>>> -
>>>> -//====================================
>>>> -// Internal variable for module
>>>> -//====================================
>>>> +/*============================================================================
>>>> +/* wb35rx.h --
>>>> +/*============================================================================
>>> I'm pretty sure this is not an accepted kernel comment style.
>> What's the problem? I think it's OK for this particular patch.
>>
> The comments are not even valid C. The only reason why they do not
> break is that they are immediately followed by another,
> correctly-formatted (but separate) comment.
Aah,  amazing how I was able to miss that!

Akshay, I suppose you didn't compile-test the patches? Please don't
send patches like that on LKML. It's a huge waste of time for reviewers.

                                 Pekka

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-17  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-16  0:24 [PATCH 1/9] Staging: Winbond: Fix case statements in wb35reg.c Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  0:24 ` [PATCH 2/9] Staging: Winbond: Fix pointer style in wb35tx.c Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  5:41   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-16  0:24 ` [PATCH 3/9] Staging: Winbond: Fix space issues " Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  5:42   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-16  0:24 ` [PATCH 4/9] Staging: Winbond: Convert C99 style comments in Winbond Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  5:42   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-16 19:56   ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-08-16 21:24     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-16 21:38       ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-08-16 21:40         ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-08-17  5:41         ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2011-08-17 19:15           ` Akshay Joshi
2011-08-17 19:17             ` Akshay Joshi
2011-08-17 21:08               ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-16 21:43       ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-17  0:19         ` Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  0:24 ` [PATCH 5/9] Staging: Winbond: Fix spacing issues for spaces before tabs Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  5:43   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-16  0:24 ` [PATCH 6/9] Staging: Winbond: Remove spacing issues related to pointers Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  5:45   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-16  0:24 ` [PATCH 7/9] Staging: Winbond: Fix parentheses in returns Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  5:45   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-16  0:24 ` [PATCH 8/9] Staging: Winbond: Use tabs instead of spaces for indents Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  5:46   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-16  0:24 ` [PATCH 9/9] Staging: Winbond: Reposition a curly bracket Akshay Joshi
2011-08-16  5:46   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-16  5:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] Staging: Winbond: Fix case statements in wb35reg.c Pekka Enberg
2011-08-23 22:27 ` Greg KH

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