Re: [PATCH 1/1] usb: storage : Remove c99 style commenting

[Sunny Kumar]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:08:42AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Sunny Kumar wrote:
> 
> > This patch fixes checkpatch.pl warning c99 style commenting.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sunny Kumar <sunny.kumar.roy@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c b/drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c
> > index aacedef..54d0a59 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c
> > @@ -209,10 +209,10 @@ static int sddr55_read_data(struct us_data *us,
> >  	unsigned int len, offset;
> >  	struct scatterlist *sg;
> >  
> > -	// Since we only read in one block at a time, we have to create
> > -	// a bounce buffer and move the data a piece at a time between the
> > -	// bounce buffer and the actual transfer buffer.
> > -
> > +	/* Since we only read in one block at a time, we have to create
> > +	 * a bounce buffer and move the data a piece at a time between the
> > +	 * bounce buffer and the actual transfer buffer.
> > +	 */
> >  	len = min((unsigned int) sectors, (unsigned int) info->blocksize >>
> >  			info->smallpageshift) * PAGESIZE;
> >  	buffer = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOIO);
> > @@ -336,10 +336,10 @@ static int sddr55_write_data(struct us_data *us,
> >  		return USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_FAILED;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	// Since we only write one block at a time, we have to create
> > -	// a bounce buffer and move the data a piece at a time between the
> > -	// bounce buffer and the actual transfer buffer.
> > -
> > +	/* Since we only write one block at a time, we have to create
> > +	 * a bounce buffer and move the data a piece at a time between the
> > +	 * bounce buffer and the actual transfer buffer.
> > +	 */
> >  	len = min((unsigned int) sectors, (unsigned int) info->blocksize >>
> >  			info->smallpageshift) * PAGESIZE;
> >  	buffer = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOIO);
> 
> Why did you fix just these two sites?  There are lots of other places 
> in usb-storage that use C99-style comments:
> 
> $ cd drivers/usb/storage
> $ egrep '[^:]//' *.[ch] | wc
>     177    1635    9562
> 
> (The [^:] is to avoid matching things like "http://";, and as a result
> this misses the four places where a // comment starts at the beginning
> of a line.)
> 
> Why not fix all of them?
These were C99 muliline comments so thought of fixing ..
> 
> Alan Stern
> 
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