Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] toshiba_acpi: Cleanup blank lines after comment blocks

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue May 05 2015 - 13:40:51 EST


On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 11:15 -0600, Azael Avalos wrote:
> This patch removes some blank lines after comment blocks, capitalizes
> some comments first words and adds a few comments to the beggining
> of some functions.

I think blank lines after comments are generally OK.

This is now inconsistent about

/*
* short comment
*/

and

/* short comment */

Not all function blocks need introductory comments.

> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c
[]
> @@ -78,10 +78,9 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> * SCI stands for "System Configuration Interface" which aim is to
> * conceal differences in hardware between different models.
> */
> -
> #define TCI_WORDS 6

It's sometimes nice to have blank lines after long
block comments.

> -/* operations */
> +/* Operations */

I think these sentence case changes aren't better.



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