Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/staging/rtl8192u: Reformat comments

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 02:21:02PM +0200, Christian Müller wrote:
> From: Felix Trommer <felix.trommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Replace C99-Style comments with C89-Style comments.

What does that mean?

>  		if (MaxChnlNum >= pTriple->first_channel) {
> -			/* It is not in a monotonically increasing order, so
> +			/*
> +			 * It is not in a monotonically increasing order, so
>  			 * stop processing.
>  			 */

Those are both /* */ style comments.  Where in the C99 or C89 spec does
it say anything about this type of change?

Are you sure you are not getting confused about // for a comment marker
in C99 which is not in C89?

thanks,

greg k-h