Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 19:02 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> Code is 80 characters wide, and comments are /* */ never the ugly C++ >> crap. > > You might look at the recent Linus Torvalds authored commit > 5e467652ffef (?printk: re-organize log_output() to be more legible") > which does both of those: c99 // comments and > 80 columns. > > Absolutes are for zealots. What Linus does in his code, is totally up to him. What I pull into the driver that *I* maintain, is up to me. It is perfectly normal to expect submitters to respect the coding style of the piece of code they are trying to edit. Jes
