[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC][ANNOUNCE] blindscan: auto search everything

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de> wrote:
> 
> > We were pretty sloppy when accepting patches in the past, however
> > DVB code is under public scrutiny on lkml, and C++ comments are
> > not accepted for kernel code.
> 
> OK, I simply tried to use the style of the rest of the file.
> I'll avoid "//" comments and clean the whole mt312.c, if it's so.
> 
> But there is a lot of cleaning work to be done, not only in dvb,
> but in *every part* of the kernel.
> I found more than 2000 files with "//", for a total of more than
> 26000 lines. :-)
> 
> Are you sure about this "//" rule? No mention in CodingStyle and
> too much infringing code already accepted.

I can't find any authoritative posting, but this comes up
regularly on lkml. If you search the bitkeeper changesets
for "comments" you will find numerous entries referring to
changing comments style.

Johannes