Hi Linus, On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (c) > // This can be a single line. Or many. Your choice. > The (c) form is particularly good for things like enum or structure > member comments at the end of code, where you might want to align > things up, but the ending comment marker ends up being visually pretty > distracting (and lining _that_ up is too much make-believe work). While I'm a fan of the (c) form myself, I became used to not using it for kernel code. Except for internal comments that are not intended to be sent out. This works fine, as checkpatch will complain if I ever forget to remove them while preparing patches. The alternative would be to teach checkpatch to complain about FIXME, TODO, and XXX in comments... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html