Re: [PATCH] Clean-up a few comments.

From: AmÃrico Wang
Date: Tue Jan 26 2010 - 22:11:26 EST


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Âarch/x86/kernel/setup.c | Â Â9 ++++-----
>> Â1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> index f7b8b98..1bd37e9 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>> @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ struct edd edd;
>> Â#ifdef CONFIG_EDD_MODULE
>> ÂEXPORT_SYMBOL(edd);
>> Â#endif
>> -/**
>> +/*
>
> There are zillions of '**' comment starters in kernel sources.
>
> Â Â Â Â$ git grep '/\*\*$' drivers/ | wc -l
> Â Â Â Â15506
>
> So it doesn't seem to make sense to fix only this particular one.

Some of them are needed by kerneldoc generation, it doesn't make sense
to fix them.
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