Re: [PATCH 6/9] tty: hvc_console: Fix coding style issues of block comments

[Xiaofei Tan]

Hi Johan,

On 2021/5/20 21:52, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 09:21:25PM +0800, Xiaofei Tan wrote:
>
> > > Checkpatch already has too many checks IMO and I'm a bit surprised that
> > > it doesn't check this already. Perhaps it's because you used the -f to
> > > run checkpatch on in-kernel code, which you should not.
> > >
> > > > > Second, that sentence is not capitalised so why do add a period?
> > > >
> > > > How about capitalize the sentence, or just remove the period ?
> > >
> > > How about just leaving this unchanged?
> >
> > OK
> > And I will keep the patch 8/9, and combine space issues into
> > one new patch, and remove the others.
>
> Yeah, 8/9 is arguably a fix even if it's for a very minor issue
> (repeated words in a comment).
>
> It doesn't look like any of the white space issues are worth fixing,
> though. Such pedantry can usually be addressed when the code in question
> is being modified for other reasons.

OK, it is reasonable. thanks.

> Johan
>
> .