Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755129AbWL3Obx (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:31:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755114AbWL3Obx (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:31:53 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:50589 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754562AbWL3Obw (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:31:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4596784A.1060001@torque.net> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:31:38 -0500 From: Douglas Gilbert Reply-To: dougg@torque.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: Sumant Patro , James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, neela.kolli@lsi.com, bo.yang@lsi.com, sumant.patro@lsi.com Subject: Re: [Patch] scsi: megaraid_{mm,mbox}: init fix for kdump References: <1167408137.4154.8.camel@dumbo> <20061229133741.441a5933.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20061229133741.441a5933.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1307 Lines: 33 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:02:17 -0800 Sumant Patro wrote: > > See Documentation/SubmittingPatches: > Please include output of "diffstat -p1 -w70" so that we can easily see > the scope of the changes. > > and see Documentation/CodingStyle for comments below: > > >> diff -uprN linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c linux-2.6.new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c >> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c 2006-12-28 09:56:04.000000000 -0800 >> +++ linux-2.6.new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c 2006-12-29 05:31:48.000000000 -0800 >> @@ -779,6 +780,22 @@ megaraid_init_mbox(adapter_t *adapter) >> goto out_release_regions; >> } >> >> + // initialize the mutual exclusion lock for the mailbox >> + spin_lock_init(&raid_dev->mailbox_lock); > > Linux uses /*...*/ C89-style comments, not // C99 comments. Randy It is about time this absurd stipulation was dropped. Are there any C compilers that can compile the linux kernel and that don't accept both _standard_ comment styles? Doug Gilbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/