On 7/10/19 10:22 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-07-10 at 10:18 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Wed, 2019-07-10 at 09:49 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On 7/10/19 9:38 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>>>> On 7/10/2019 6:34 AM, Aaron Goidel wrote:
>>>>> @@ -3261,6 +3262,26 @@ static int selinux_inode_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name)
>>>>> return -EACCES;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> +static int selinux_inode_notify(struct inode *inode, u64 mask)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + u32 perm = FILE__WATCH; // basic permission, can a watch be set?
>>>>
>>>> We don't use // comments in the Linux kernel.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I thought that we had recently moved into the 21st century on that issue,
>>> but I don't see it mentioned in coding-style.rst. Maybe we need a Doc update.
>>>
>>> checkpatch allows C99 comments by default.
>>> Joe, do you recall about this?
>>
>> My recollection is it was something I thought was
>> just simple and useful so I added it to checkpatch
>> without going through the negative of the nominal
>> approvals required by modifying CodingStyle.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/8/625
>
Aha, thanks, I don't recall seeing that one.
--
~Randy
