It saves a byte. I'd imagine bytes are valuable in a project like this. PS: Please forgive my previous patch email, I didn't know the guidelines well. Signed-off-by: Steven Davis <goldside000@xxxxxxxxxxx ---  kernel/module/main.c | 2 +-  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c index d18a94b973e102..25e456f4381c71 100644 --- a/kernel/module/main.c +++ b/kernel/module/main.c @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ bool __is_module_percpu_address(unsigned long addr, unsigned long *can_addr)  â??â??â??â??â??return false;  }  -/** +/*  * is_module_percpu_address() - test whether address is from module static percpu  * @addr: address to test  *