On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 14:37 +0200, Milian Wolff wrote: > On Dienstag, 19. September 2017 14:27:11 CEST Jiri Olsa wrote: [] > > nit, think we prefer the /* */ comment style > > I'll fix this, but note that there are more places outside this patch series > where this style has crept in. Some of them also from past patches of mine - > sorry for that.
I think c99 comments are fine. So did Linus Torvalds. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1607.1/00627.html > I looks to me as if the checkpatch.pl should catch this, but it doesn't for > me > which is odd. Does anyone know what I need to do to enable the C99_COMMENTS > check? Modify checkpatch my $allow_c99_comments = 1; change the 1 to 0 Add a runtime option if you want.

